Curious People - Bibliography

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Gerard Mercator (left) and Jodocus Hondius (right) with their books and maps

The bibliography lists all the books and manuscripts that were used to make Curious People: a history of exploration. It directs people to the original sources so that they can check the facts and find out more about the subject. Each reference to a book or manuscript has some of the following elements laid out in the following order:

Author, with the surname first, Title of the work (Place it was published, Date it was published) Classmark - a code which says where the item is in the Library.

Some of the references are clickable. They link to more information about the book or manuscript.

Books from the Library featured in the resource:

Bartholomew, John George, The advanced atlas of physical and political geography (London, 1917) Chapel Basement Oversize 16

Bellingshausen, Thaddeus, The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821 (London, 1945) Chapel Basement HAK Ser.2, Vol.91-2

Bosman, Willem, A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea (London, 1705) Kk.8.29(1)

Cook, James, A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world (London, 1777) F.3.34-35

Cook, James, A voyage to The Pacific Ocean (London, 1784) F.3.36-38

Coxe, William, Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America (London, 1780) F.4.42

Dampier, William, A voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year, 1699 (London, 1703) Gg.13.37(2)

Geographical handbook series: Naval Intelligence Division B.R.522: The Belgian Congo (London, 1944) Garden Basement G 100.B4.c

Havergal, F. T. (ed.), Facsimile of the Hereford Mappa Mundi (Hereford, 1869)

Holland, Henry, Heroologia Anglica [English heroes] (Arnhem, 1620) Aa.1.55

Huttich, Johann (ed.), Nouus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum [The new world of regions and islands unknown to the ancients] (Basel, 1532) F.1.5(1)

L'Isle, Guillaume de, Collection of maps (c.1740) SL.1.23

Livingstone, David, Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures (Cambridge, 1830) Garden Basement 11.11.53

Mercator, Gerhard, Atlas (Amsterdam, 1613) SL.1.49

Mulgrave, Constantine John Phipps, A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773 (London, 1774) F.2.33(1)

Münster, Sebastian, Cosmographia [Cosmography] (Basel, 1559) F.1.21

Ortelius, Abraham, Theatrum orbis terrarum [Theatre of the world] (Antwerp, 1592) SL.1.51

Palairet, Jean, Atlas methodique (London, 1755) 2.61.12 super-oversize

Polo, Marco, Frere Hayton and Andreas Muller, De regionibus orientalibus libri III ... Historia orientalis ... De Chataja [Three books on the orient ... A history of the orient ... On Cathay] (Berlin, 1671) F.8.26

Pontanus, Johannes Isacius, Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia [A history of the affairs and town of Amsterdam] (Amsterdam, 1611) F.2.23

Psalterium Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, & Chaldaeum [The Book of the Psalms in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic and Syriac] (Genoa, 1516) Tt.3.31

Ptolemy, Geographia [Geography] (Lyon, 1535) D.6.33

Robinson, Tancred (ed.), An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north (London, 1694) A/G.13.19

Ross, John, Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 (London, 1835) 8/W.1.11

Shackleton, Ernest, The Heart of the Antarctic: being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 (London, 1909) Garden Basement G 875.S4.A1

Sir Francis Drake Revived (London, 1653) A.2.13(2)

Smith, Charles, Smith's New general atlas (London, 1822) 2.34.5

Speke, John Hanning, Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile (Edinburgh and London, 1863) Garden Basement 10.25.29

Stanley, Henry Morton, In Darkest Africa (London, 1890) DT 363.S7

Manuscripts from the Library featured in the resource:

William of Conches, Dragmaticon philosophiae [A dialogue on natural philosophy] (Canterbury, C13th) MS G.3, f.61r

Letter from Rosemary to T. R. Glover (6 October 1940) Glover.A.A1.11/4/24

Other sources used to create this resource:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, The collected works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Lewis Patton et al. (London, 1971-2002) PR 4470.1971

Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (Boston, 1996) PR 6005.O4.H4.1996

Starkey, Dinah, Sainsbury’s atlas of exploration (London, 1993)

Stefoff, Rebecca, The British Library companion to maps and mapmaking (London, 1995) RBR GA 201.S7