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A one-volume history of exploration told through the stories of the Royal Geographical Society's remarkable gold-medal winners

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Excerpt from BrahmsNorma fantasia, and at the second a duet by the same popular virtuoso with Frau meyer-david, the concert giver. Nearly a year afterwards, on 21 September, 1848, he gave a concert of his own, at which he played a fugue of Bach, besides other things more suited to the taste of that day. On 14 April, 1849, he gave another concert, playing the Waldstein sonata of Beethoven, some popular pieces, and a fantasia by himself on a fav...

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Excerpt from Joseph JoachimFar more vivid picture from the man who admires his subject, even if it be with only the foolish admiration of a Boswell, than through the atmosphere of hardly concealed invective in which some modern biographers have chosen to shroud the figure they present. The system of panegyric has one drawback, though it may be considered an indirect one if superlatives are spread too thick, like the butter in the moving ballad...

Excerpt from English Carols of the Fifteenth Century: From a Ms. Roll in the Library of Trinity College, CambridgeIII. The word Alleluia, at the top of p. 7 (mod), and in the corresponding place in the later stanzas, has been supplied conjecturally. In T. Wright's Songs and Carols of the Fifteenth Century (sloane ms, 'warton Club, 1856) another version of the words is given.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ...

For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge. Winners of the Founder's and Patron's medals now number around three hundred individuals, and the roll-call of names is a veritable Who's Who of exploration. Telling their stories, of the many and varied ways in which they have helped 'fill in the maps', is nothing less than a history of explorati...

A one-volume history of exploration told through the stories of the Royal Geographical Society's remarkable gold-medal winners