The Quarterly Review, Volume 294William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1956 |
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... WHYMPER : MOUNTAINEER , WRITER , ARTIST , AND SCIENTIST . 1 6 But be not afraid of greatness : some are born great , some achieve greatness and some have ... WHYMPER: MOUNTAINEER, WRITER, ARTIST, AND SCIENTIST By Robert Whymper.
... WHYMPER : MOUNTAINEER , WRITER , ARTIST , AND SCIENTIST . 1 6 But be not afraid of greatness : some are born great , some achieve greatness and some have ... WHYMPER: MOUNTAINEER, WRITER, ARTIST, AND SCIENTIST By Robert Whymper.
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... Whymper against his inclination to publish a full and clear account of the accident , but the arm - chair criticisms mostly vilified the leader of the fateful expedition and roundly condemned mountaineering as a useless , dangerous ...
... Whymper against his inclination to publish a full and clear account of the accident , but the arm - chair criticisms mostly vilified the leader of the fateful expedition and roundly condemned mountaineering as a useless , dangerous ...
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... Whymper had this type of mind and was the ideal , or very nearly ideal , guide - book writer . ' I would suggest that the qualities that Mr Smythe states are the requisites for a good writer of guide - books are ( with imagination that ...
... Whymper had this type of mind and was the ideal , or very nearly ideal , guide - book writer . ' I would suggest that the qualities that Mr Smythe states are the requisites for a good writer of guide - books are ( with imagination that ...
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French Migraine | 1 |
The Jews in Britain | 3 |
The Span of a History | 9 |
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