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  • Pioneers in Canada

    Journeys of Courage and Perseverance in Wild Canada

    In "Pioneers in Canada," Harry Johnston masterfully chronicles the efforts and experiences of the early settlers who ventured into the vast, untamed landscapes of Canada. The book's literary style combines detailed historical narrative with vivid personal anecdotes, illuminating the struggles and triumphs faced by these pioneers. Johnston employs a rich, descriptive language that evokes the harsh ... Read more

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  • Pioneers in Australasia

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Pioneers in Australasia is a sweeping history of exploration, discovery, and empire in the southern seas, from Borneo and New Guinea to Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Pacific. It traces the first European encounters with unfamiliar peoples, lands, and creatures, showing how fragile ships, uncertain maps, hunger, disease, storms, imprisonment, and death shaped the making of colonial power. ... Read more

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  • Pioneers in Canada

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Pioneers in Canada opens with a sweeping account of exploration, conquest, and settlement in North America, told through the daring, flawed, and often tragic lives of the men and women who helped shape the British Empire. Moving from ancient human migrations out of Asia to the first Norse voyages across the North Atlantic, the book traces the peopling of the Americas, the settlement of Iceland and ... Read more

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  • Pioneers in Canada

    The Opening of the North

    The opening of Canada from Cartier to the fur brigades and the overland parties that reached the Pacific, told in one volume by a man who had led expeditions himself. Johnston illustrated his own books and had an administrator's eye for what a river crossing actually costs. This edition adds 54 bound plates of painting from 1830 to 1903, among them Bierstadt, Church, Moran and Remington. ... Read more

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  • Pioneers in Canada

    "Pioneers in Canada" by Harry Johnston is a compelling exploration of the early settlers who shaped the Canadian landscape. Johnston delves into the lives of these pioneers, highlighting their struggles, triumphs, and the indomitable spirit that drove them to forge new lives in a vast and often unforgiving wilderness. Through vivid storytelling and rich historical detail, the book paints a ... Read more

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  • The Nile Quest

    The record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin

    In "The Nile Quest: A Record of the Exploration of the Nile and Its Basin," Harry Johnston meticulously chronicles the rich tapestry of explorations along the legendary Nile River, delving into both its geographic significance and cultural ramifications. The book adopts a narrative style that seamlessly combines vivid storytelling with scholarly research, reflecting the Victorian fascination with ... Read more

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  • The Kilima-njaro Expedition

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    H. H. Johnston's account of the Kilima-njaro Expedition opens as both travel narrative and scientific inquiry, carrying the reader into eastern equatorial Africa with a scholar's eye and an explorer's urgency. Dedicated to Sir John Kirk and written with a phonetic system for African names, the work is designed to guide readers through a journey that moves from the coast inland to Taita, Mombasa, ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Warren's Daughter

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Sir Harry Johnston's Mrs. Warren's Daughter boldly continues the story of Vivien Warren after George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, expanding a famous argument about women, morality, and independence into a sweeping novel of modern life. Opening in June 1900 in the efficient offices of Fraser and Warren in Chancery Lane, it introduces Vivie as a cool, athletic, fiercely self-possessed ... Read more

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  • Pioneers in Australasia

    The Opening of the South Seas

    The opening of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands, from Tasman and Cook to the overland crossings, told for readers who wanted the whole story in one volume. Johnston had been a colonial administrator and explorer in Africa himself and wrote with a practitioner's eye for what these journeys cost. Fifty-eight plates, among them sea pieces by William Hodges and J. M. W. Turner, trace the ... Read more

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  • A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

    Harry Johnston's A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races is an ambitious imperial survey of the successive peoples who entered, settled, and ruled parts of the African continent from antiquity to the modern era. Blending historical synthesis, ethnographic speculation, and geographical description, Johnston writes in the expansive, authoritative prose characteristic of late Victorian ... Read more

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  • A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races

    The theme of this book obviously deals rather with the invasion and settlement of Africa by foreign nations than with the movements of people indigenous in their present types to the African continent; nevertheless, it may be well to preface this sketch of the history of African colonization by a few remarks explaining the condition and inhabitants of the continent—so far as we can deduce them ... Read more

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  • A History Of The Colonization Of Africa By Alien Races

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In "A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races," Harry Johnston presents a compelling examination of imperial ambition and cultural interplay, tracing the intricate tapestry of Africa's colonization by various foreign powers. Johnston, an esteemed explorer and colonial administrator, embarks on an intellectual journey that exposes the motivations, consequences, and narratives woven ... Read more

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