Raymond John Howgego
Encyclopedia of Exploration
1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration
A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of travel and colonization in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas, from the year 1850 to 1940. There is more information about the book on this site, including full lists of articles, persons referred to in the text, and all ships' names that occur in the book. www.explorersencyclopedia.com (still in development) is a permanent website that will be devoted to the book, where any additions, corrections or other suggestions are welcomed. They can be submitted via the website, and all contributions will be moderated by Ray Howgego. Periodically updates will be issued as a single printable document which can be freely downloaded.
Quarto format (280 x 210 mm.), 1047 pages; bound in cloth with a colour dustjacket.
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About the Book
With 950 major articles Raymond Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration, the fourth and final volume of the highly acclaimed series, concentrates exclusively on the history of exploration and travel in the continental mainlands between the years 1850 and 1940. The index provides immediate access to the lives and achievements of nearly 4000 explorers, travellers and participants in expeditions, many of whom have received little previous attention or have never been documented in the English language. Every expedition is placed firmly in its historical context, while the numerous cross-references guide the reader between articles of similar content. The exceptionally thorough bibliographies which accompany each article between them cite more than 16,000 sources of reference.
About the Author
Raymond Howgego is an independent researcher, scholar and traveller, who has been researching the history of exploration for much of his adult life. His travels have followed in the footsteps of the explorers to most parts of the world - Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, West Africa, South America, the Cape Verde Islands, Uganda and Ethiopia; and more recently overland from China to Tibet and across the length and breadth of Australia. His numerous excursions in search of local sources of information have afforded the opportunity to add to a lifetime's accumulation of travel literature. He has recently been appointed to the Council of the Hakluyt Society. Brian Turner noted in a recent article on the Encyclopedia that 'The soft-spoken physicist turned travel-scholar speaks and speed-reads every European language (except Basque and Finnish) plus Arabic, and has translated into English many travel narratives himself. Howgego is also a great serial traveller; he has stood at the same spot as Speke at the source of the Nile, sailed through the Straits of Magellan, and followed the tracks of the Conquistadors through Bolivia. In 1994 Howgego and his companions were the first Europeans to cross the Torugart Pass from Kyrgyzstan into China since the Russian Revolution. Minutes after his jeep had crossed an unstable section of Pakistan's precipitous Karakoram Highway, the road collapsed into the Indus. Ray has also voyaged down most of the world's great rivers, including the Niger in flood, when neither bank was visible. His favourite destination? "Kashgar is my centre of the universe". And favourite country? "Iran; the Zoroastrian monasteries of central Iran fascinate me and the Islamic architecture of Esfahan is heart-stoppingly beautiful"'.