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Encyclopedia of Exploration Volume I | ||
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Glyn Williams: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History | |
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Enormously valuable to specialists and non-specialists alike... should be on the shelves of all those who are interested in the exploration of the world... Hordern House, as one would expect, has done a magnificent job on the production side: high-quality paper, legible print, a stout binding - and all at a price that by today's standards is more than reasonable... | ||
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Merrill Distad: Bulletin of the Pacific Circle | |
| A monumental and now indispensable work... Astonishingly comprehensive and impressively authoritative... | ||
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S. R. McEathron: Choice Magazine USA | |
| Highly recommended. All collections... A tour de force of descriptive, biographic, and bibliographic documentation... | ||
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto: International Journal of Maritime History | |
| I would never have believed it possible for a single writer to have produced a dictionary of such reliability and thoroughness on this elusive and danger fraught subject. It makes a handsome book, superbly produced by sensitive publishers. | ||
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Fergus Fleming: Times Literary Supplement | |
| Exudes majesty... it resembles less a book than a topographical feature, something so compelling that you can not help looking at it, again and again just to confirm that it is there. It is rather like having the Matterhorn in your front room.... a towering work of scholarship... | ||
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Patricio Tapia: El Mercurio – Artes y Lettres | |
| Desde luego, nada de esto preocupa a Raymond John Howgego. En su Enciclopedia de la exploración, de hecho, ni siquiera señala qué entiende por tal ni tampoco las características definitorias de los exploradores o viajeros, que son, a fin de cuentas, la unidad básica del libro. Según su autor, éste pretende ser un catálogo de expediciones, viajes y travesías, más que un diccionario biográfico de viajeros, sin embargo, salvo algunas entradas temáticas, es el orden alfabético de sus nombres el que determina los apartados. Unos cuantos artículos sobre grandes regiones o períodos históricos —al igual que algunos mapas o ilustraciones— habrían enriquecido la obra, aunque, claro, también habrían aumentado su extensión y precio. | ||
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Peter Robb: Australian Book Review | |
| You open Raymond John Howgego's book and dive into the world's great and terrible past. The Encyclopedia of Exploration is a vast, meticulous and absorbing record of human restlessness that seems to be quite without precedent... This is a necessary book, produced not by `a team of specialists' huddled in the shelter of an institution, but by a single scholar driven by passion... The book is a wonder for its exact economy of language alone. | ||
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Colin Steele: UK Rare Books Newsletter | |
| Now a new name, Howgego, needs to be added to the pantheon of travel bibliographers... Destined to become a standard work of reference for the history of world exploration, travel and colonization. | ||
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David Buisseret: Society for the History of Discoveries | |
| A remarkably full listing... with exceptionally full lists of printed sources for each subject. Howgego has tried for each article to produce accurate information, somewhat reminding the reader of “just the facts, sir, just the facts”... Anybody wanting an up-to-date and factual account of a wide variety of explorers would do well to consult this rather expensive volume. | ||
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John Hemming: The Book Collector | |
| One man's labour of love... fifteen years of research and travels by someone enthralled by his task... A prodigious achievement, the size of a telephone directory... | ||
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François Bellec: La Géograph | |
| Raymond John Howgego a atteint le but qu’il s’était fixé... Je garantis aux utilisateurs potentiels que cet ouvrage trouvera une place utile dans leur bibliothèque de travail... | ||
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Carl-Henrik Berg: Historisk Tidsskrift | |
| Engelsmannen Raymond Howgego är rnannen bakom det enastående uppslagsverket Encyclopedia of exploration to 1800, som har ambitionen att presentera all världens kända och rnindre kända upptäckare och expeditioner alkifrån år 1800 f.Kr. till år 1800... | ||
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William Reese: Antiquarian Book Monthly | |
| A truly remarkable and extremely useful work of reference... Brings together in one place a vast amount of information on early explorers and exploration... | ||
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Pitcairn: Pitcairn Islands Study Center | |
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As it comes into the hands of researchers, students, historians, collectors, librarians and an armada of armchair adventurers this grand work will forever be their the first and best choice in learning... | ||
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Milton E. Osborne: Quadrant | |
| This great plum pudding of a book... authoritative, compendious and highly readable... For travellers, whether actual or from their armchairs... beautifully produced, a credit to its compiler and its publisher... | ||
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Ian Morrison: Australian Library Journal | |
| Will surely become a standard reference work... Much of the information it contains is not otherwise available in English; it is unusually rich in accounts of non-European travellers... | ||
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Alberto Manguel: The Spectator | |
| Nominating volume 1 as one of the Spectator's Books of the Year for 2003: The definitive reference book for anyone interested in the history of travel... This accurate and comprehensive marvel... | ||
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John Wright: Brisbane Courier-Mail | |
| "This stands alone as a reference work... I have never seen anything like this. It adds immeasurably to the store of knowledge about world exploration, summarizing the lives and activities of thousands of explorers. It belongs in every public and university library and every secondary school..." (quoting Miriam Estensen, author of Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land). | ||
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Brian Marshall: Datum | |
| The work involved to compile Howgego's listing is mind boggling. What he has produced is an awesome amount of information, of a nature that is often very elusive and difficult to track down and confirm for accuracy... | ||
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Ian McKay: Antiques Trade Gazette | |
| For the great volume that the postman brought to my door I give thanks, and would happily have proffered a handsome tip, had it not been likely to provoke a dour lecture on the perils of interfering with the due processes of the Royal Mail... my semblance of knowledge and understanding is going to be greatly enhanced over the coming years, thanks to Hordern House and Mr Howgego’s encyclopedia, and even those with already extensive reference libraries in the field will surely welcome this all-encompassing, one, or first-stop option. | ||
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Steve Meacham: Sydney Morning Herald | |
| Raymond John Howgego... a kind of scholarly Michael Palin... doesn't fit the conventional image of an explorer. Slight, bespectacled and softly spoken, he looks more like a librarian than an adventurer. Yet for the past 15 years Howgego - who can read "every European language apart from Hungarian, plus Arabic" - has been on a private voyage of discovery. It's a journey that has taken him to some of the most remote places on Earth. And though he has followed the footsteps of the world's most influential explorers, in a sense he has ventured where no man has gone before. | ||
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Ewald Christians: Salon.com | |
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Before trying to impress anyone with your newfound knowledge... be aware that the author has included one fictional article among the many hundred entries, which so far has eluded publisher and editors alike. | ||
