Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

The Essential Library presents Samuel Baker´s "Eight Years Wandering in Ceylon." Explore nineteenth century Sri Lanka and immerse yourself in an exotic bygone world. This heirloom edition is part of an entertaining collection of hard-to-find works of non-fiction. Visit www.EssentialLibrary.com to see all the titles in this series.

Sri Lanka - Natural History - Travels in the island about the year 1850. With notes on cultivation, sport, history and future prospects...

Chiefly covers the 19th-20th centuries.

In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and reception, and the import of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. This volume makes clear that the science of this era varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its different epistemic practices, in its audiences, and in the ways in which it was put to work.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.