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Year: 1838 Publisher: London : Smith Elder and Co.,
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ISBN: 1139198645 1108046517 Year: 1838 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press
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In 1807, the Directors of the East India Company ordered a survey of the nine districts, covering 60,000 square miles and containing 15,000,000 British subjects, which formed the Eastern territories of British India. In this three-volume work, published in 1838, Irish civil servant and author Robert Montgomery Martin (1801-68) compiled and collated the original survey material at East India House to describe the geography, geology, meteorology, natural history, agriculture and manufactures, population, history, architecture, fine arts, religion and education of this huge area. Martin, the first colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong, founder of the East India Association, author of History of the British Colonies (1834-5), and later publisher of the Duke of Wellington's dispatches, carried out his work to alert the British public to the growing social and political problems he perceived in India. Volume 2 (reissued in two parts) covers the districts of Bhagalpur, Gorakhpur and Dinajpur.
India --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs. --- History. --- Description and travel
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ISBN: 1139628666 1108063705 Year: 1838 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press
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Having served on expeditions under John Franklin, the British naval officer Sir George Back (1796-1878) had already gained first-hand experience of Arctic peril and survival by the time he was appointed in 1836 to command HMS Terror. His mission was to survey uncharted coastline in the Canadian Arctic, yet Back's ship became trapped in ice near Frozen Strait and was unable to escape for ten months. In this account, first published in 1838, Back lucidly documents the developing crisis, noting the numerous preparations to abandon ship, the deaths of three of his men from scurvy, and the further damage caused by an iceberg after the Terror was freed. Against the odds, the ship managed to reach Ireland in 1837. Naturally, Back gives much credit to the durability of the Terror - originally a bomb vessel from the War of 1812, it had been further strengthened for Arctic service.
Natural history --- Science --- Terror (Ship) --- Northwest, Canadian --- Arctic regions --- Description and travel. --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- HMS Terror --- H.M.S. Terror --- Description and travel
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