CONQUERORS OF TIME EXPLORATION AND INVENTION IN THE AGE OF DARING
Written by Trevor Fishlock
Published by John Murray
in 2004
ISBN: 0719555175
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- TRAVEL
- EXPLORATION
- INVENTIONS
CONQUERORS OF TIME EXPLORATION AND INVENTION IN THE AGE OF DARING
Written by Trevor Fishlock.
Stock no. 1601536
2004.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
B/w photos. 444 pages. ISBN: 0719555175. SIGNED by author (with dedication) in ink on title page.
Front cover
Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1. The Copper King
- 2. With dauntless feet
- 3. Elephants for want of towns
- 4. The appointment with Venus
- 5. Simple fornication
- 6. The flowerpot men
- 7. The African meteor
- 8. The painted East
- 9. Pompey's Pillar
- 10. The punishment of Ixion
- 11. The Atlantic ferry
- 12. By Vulcan's Art my ample belly's made
- 13. The great god tripod
- 14. Get me long distance
- 15. From Liverpool to the moon
- 16. Taller than my giant
- 17. The path to my fixed purpose
- 18. The precipice of time
- 19. Ice and Fire
- 20. The ghost of the swamp
- 21. Alarms in distant places
- 22. Pictures of silver
- 23. Rivers in the sky
- 24. Mount Hopeless
- 25. The bush staccato
- 26. The cameleers
- 27. The driver cracked the whip
- 28. That art of masts
- 29. Posh
- 30. Laying the ghost
- 31. Halt in the name of the Queen
- 32. The light of the world
- 33. A gulag in Eden
- 34. Faster than witches
- 35. All aboard for the Pacific
- 36. Specimens
- 37. Your worship is your furnaces
- 38. In all things be men
- 39. Something in the air
- Acknowledgements
- Index