The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108004602)

In 1880, the Royal Geographical Society commissioned Sir Clements R. Markham, a noted British geographer and the Society's secretary, to write a history of its formation, and of the many expeditions it had supported since 1830, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Published in 1881, The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society consists of twelve chapters. The first five are a condensed history of the original group of geographers who called themselves the Raleigh Club, and the events leading up to the Society's official formation. Chapters 6 and 7 recount the activities of past presidents, secretaries and leading members of the Society, with the rest of the book detailing the fascinating scientific expeditions the Society sponsored financially from the Arctic to Antarctica, the explorers who took part in them, and the various publications the Society published to advance natural science and exploration.

Author: Clements R. Markham
ISBN-10: 1108004601
ISBN-13: 9781108004602
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2009
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d