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ISBN-13: | 9781729590003 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 10/28/2018 |
Pages: | 470 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.95(d) |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction James De Mille: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text A Kosekin GlossaryA Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Appendix A: Antarctic Exploration Antarctica Exploration Timeline
- From James Cook and Tobias Furneaux, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777)
- Book 1, Chapters 2-3, January 1773
- Book 2, Chapter 6, January 1774
- From Charles Wilkes, Synopsis of the Cruise of the .S. Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838-1842 (1842)
- From Captain Sir James Clark Ross, A Voyage of Discovery in the Southern and Antarctic Regions (During the Years 1839-43) (1847)
- Volume 1, Chapter VII, 10 January 1841
- Volume 1, Chapter VII, 27 January 1841
- Volume 1, Chapter VIII, 28 January 1841
Appendix B: Nineteenth-Century Geology and Paleontology
- From Richard Owen, Geology and the Inhabitants of the Ancient World (1854)
- Pterodactyle
- Iguanodon
- Hylaeosaurus
- Megalosaurus
- Teleosaurus
- Enaliosauria (Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus)
- Labyrinthodon
- From Louis Figuier, The World Before the Deluge (1866)
- “whale of the saurians”
- Ideal Landscapes
- Coal Period Vegetation: From Louis Figuier, The World Before the Deluge (1866)
- From Elijah H. Burritt, Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens (1845)
Appendix C: Savages and Cannibals
- From James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777)
- Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 5, November 1773, Queen Charlotte’s Sound, New Zealand
- Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 5, August 1774, Vanuatu Archipelago
- From Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (1846)
Appendix D: Historical Mythology: Caves and Troglodytes
- From Plato, The Republic of Plato (c. 380 BCE): The Allegory of the Cave
- From Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1843)
- From Thomas Hodgkin, “On the Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Islands” (1848)
Appendix E: Scientific Romance and Lost Worlds
- From John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery (1820)
- From Edgar Allan Poe, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838)
- Preface
- A History of Antarctic Exploration
- From Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race: or The New Utopia (1871)
- Orientalism
- Gender
- From Jules Verne, A Journey into the Interior of the Earth (1877)
- From Samuel Butler, Erewhon or Over the Range (1880)
- From Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver (1726)
Appendix F: Reviews
- New York Times, 21 May 1888
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 3 June 1888
- The Week, July 1888
- The Athenaeum, 15 December 1888
Works Cited and Recommended Reading