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The Man who Swung a Pick at Panama
The construction of the Panama Canal, its opening to traffic in early 1914, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the canal, all...
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The Panama Swim
The construction of the Panama Canal, its opening to traffic in early 1914, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the canal, all...
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Queen of the Panama Canal
The construction of the Panama Canal, its opening to traffic in early 1914, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the canal, all...
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Sailing through the Panama Canal
The construction of the Panama Canal, its opening to traffic in early 1914, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the canal, all...
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Through my Uncle's Panama Canal I'll Sail
The construction of the Panama Canal, its opening to traffic in early 1914, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the canal, all...
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Honeymooning on the Panama Canal
The construction of the Panama Canal, its opening to traffic in early 1914, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the canal, all...
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When the First Ship Sails through the Panama Canal
The construction of the Panama Canal, its opening to traffic in early 1914, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the canal, all...
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Eduard Glaser’s Journey to Ma'rib
Eduard Glaser (1855–1908) was a preeminent scholar of South Arabia. He was born in Rust in Bohemia, and later moved to Vienna, where he studied Arabic and Sabaean grammar under Austrian orientalist...
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Remarks on a Plant of Arabia Petraea
Alire Raffeneau-Delile (1778–1850) was a botanist who had a distinguished career in his native France and in the United States. His talents and education as a naturalist were recognized early. He was...
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Some Problems of the Persian Gulf
Some Problems of the Persian Gulf is a paper read by Lovat Fraser at the meeting of the Central Asian Society held in London on January 8, 1908. Fraser was a British journalist of some note. A strong...
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Travels to Arabia: Pilgrimage to the Najd, Cradle of the Arab Race
Voyage en Arabie (Travels to Arabia) is an account by Lady Anne Blunt of the journey that she and her husband, the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, made to the Najd region of present-day Saudi Arabia in the...
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The Chivalric Tradition of the Arabs
La tradition chevaleresque des Arabes (The chivalric tradition of the Arabs)is a work by Egyptian writer and politician Wacyf Boutros Ghali (1878–1958) that attempts to link the chivalric tradition of...
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The Bedouins, or Arabs of the Desert
Les Bédouins, ou Arabes du désert (The Bedouins, or Arabs of the desert) is a transcription and translation by F.J. Mayeux of original ethnographic notes by the Franco-Egyptian intellectual Dom Raphaël...
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The History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern
The History of Arabia,Ancient and Modern is a two-volume study, first published in 1833, by the Scottish Presbyterian cleric and man of letters Andrew Crichton (1790−1855). In his preface, Crichton...
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Travel Account of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Darʻi
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Darʻi (1647–1717) was a Moroccan scholar, traveler, and book collector. His Riḥlah (Travel account) describes his pilgrimage to Mecca and the many stops he made along...
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The Confluence of the Seas
Multaqá al-abḥur (The confluence of the seas) is a celebrated work of Hanafi jurisprudence, written by Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Halabi (died 1549 or 1550), also known as al-Halabi. Completed in 1517,...
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History of Printing and Journalism in Aden, Arabia
History of Printing and Journalism in Aden,Arabia is a five-page typescript report written by A.Y. Khan in 1940. It tells the story of the slow development of printing and publishing in Aden (in...
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Works of the Provisional Canalization of the São Pedro River: São Antonio and...
This image is from Obras da canalização provisoria do rio São Pedro (Works of the provisional canalization of the São Pedro River), an album of 26 photographs documenting one of a series of projects...
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Works of the Provisional Canalization of the São Pedro River: Limeira Aqueduct
This image is from Obras da canalização provisoria do rio São Pedro (Works of the provisional canalization of the São Pedro River), an album of 26 photographs documenting one of a series of projects...
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Works of the Provisional Canalization of the São Pedro River: São Pedro River...
This image is from Obras da canalização provisoria do rio São Pedro (Works of the provisional canalization of the São Pedro River), an album of 26 photographs documenting one of a series of projects...
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