In this book, ornithologists Charles G. Sibley and Burt L. Monroe Jr, present descriptions of the geographic distributions, and comments about the species-level taxonomy, of the living birds of the world. The accounts of the 9672 species are arranged according to the classification developed by Sibley, Monroe, and Ahlquist. The authors provide new ...
A book on travel and exploration on the border of Russia and China in 1913 when China had just had its revolution and the Russian one was still to come, written by the soldier, linguist, spy, keen early photographer, plant collector, big game hunter and explorer Lt. Col. Charles Howard-Burry.
Charles Howard-Bury led the first official reconnaisance expedition to Everest in 1921. This is the account of that journey with George Mallory and others to investigate approaches to the world's highest and until then largely inaccessible mountain.
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