Discovery & Exploration Books

The River of London

Hilaire Belloc

On the contrary, the note of the approach to London nowadays from the Lower Thames is a note peculiarly and strongly modern. It is as though the abnormal expansion of our perilous Industrialism in the..

Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General, Vol. 2

Royal Geographical Society

Thermometers are either direct-reading or self-registering. The former are used for obtaining the temperature at any given moment, the latter for ascertaining the highest or the lowest temperature in ..