Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. Documents of c. 1533. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1872.

Explore the fascinating world of the Inca Empire through a series of carefully curated historical accounts in Articles on the Incas by Sir Clements Robert Markham. This work delves into key aspects of Incan culture, focusing on their religion, mythology, and societal customs.Stories such as The Shepherd and the Daughter of the Sun and Viracocha and the Coming of the Incas shed light on the Incas' spiritual beliefs and their divine connections. Markham also offers a glimpse into sig...

In this authoritative biography, Sir Clements Robert Markham tells the story of Robert Fairfax, Vice-Admiral of the Blue and a key figure in early 18th-century British naval history. Born into a distinguished Yorkshire family, Fairfax rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy during an era of expanding maritime power and near-constant war with European rivals. Markham chronicles Fairfax's service in pivotal naval engagements, his leadership during the War of the Spanish Succession, and his ...

The history of the Polar Regions, of those vast areas, difficult of access, which include millions of square miles of land and ocean at either extreme of our planet, is of surpassing interest and importance. It is not only that we here meet with examples of heroism and devotion which must entrance mankind for all time. It is not only that there are dangers to be encountered and difficulties to be overcome which call forth the best qualities of our race. These, no doubt, are the main reason...

Majorca has a very interesting history under its Aragonese princes, and a history which has been well told by those princes themselves and by a loyal vassal who was a diligent seeker after truth. But to understand it we must turn first to the gorges of the Pyrenees and the ports of Catalonia. By the middle of the eighth century the Moors had overcome Spain up to the Pyrenees, and established their rule and their religion in all parts of the country. But there they had to stop. They could n...

The whole world, and especially all tropical countries where intermittent fevers prevail, have long been indebted to the mountainous forests of the Andes for that inestimable febrifuge which has now become indispensable, and the demand for which is rapidly increasing, while the supply decreases, throughout all civilized countries. There is probably no drug which is more valuable to man than the febrifugal alkaloid which is extracted from the chinchona-trees of South America; and few greate...