Author:Clements Robert Markham

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Clements Robert Markham
(1830–1916)

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English explorer, author and geographer. As President of the Royal Geographical Society in the late nineteenth century, Markham was instrumental in financing British exploration of the polar areas

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "C. R. M."

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "C. R. M."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "C. R. M."

Works

Franklin's Footsteps (1852) London, Chapman and Hall
Cuzco...and Lima (1856) London, Chapman and Hall (external scan)
Travels in Peru and India (1862) London, John Murray (external scan)
Contribution Toward a Grammar and Dictionary of Quichua (1864) London, Trubner & Co, (external scan)
A History of the Abyssinian Expedition (1869) London, Macmillan
A Life of the Great Lord Fairfax (1870) London, Macmillan (external scan)
Ollanta: An Ancient Ynca Drama (1871) London, Trubner & Co (transcription project)
The Countess of Chinchon and the cinchona genus (1874) London, Trubner & Co
General Sketch of the History of Persia (1874) London, Longman Green
The Geographical Magazine, chief editor (1874–1878)
The Threshold of the Unknown Regions (1875) London, Samson Low (external scan)
"The Sea of Ancient Ice" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1696) (1876)
Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet (1877) London, Trubner & Co (transcription project)
A Memoir of the Indian Surveys (1878) London, W.H. Allen (external scan)
Peruvian Bark (1880) London, John Murray (external scan)
The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622 (1881) London, Hakluyt Society
The War between Peru and Chile (1881) London, Samson Low (external scan)
A narrative of the life of Admiral John Markham (1883) London, Low Marston Searle & Rivington (external scan)
The Sea Fathers (1885) London, Cassell (external scan)
Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton, Vice-admiral (1885) London, MacMillan & Co, (external scan)
The Fighting Veres (1888) London, Samson Low (external scan)
The Life of John Davis the Navigator (1889) London, George Philip and Son (external scan)
The Life of Christopher Columbus (1892) London, George Philip and Son
The History of Peru (1892) Chicago, Charles H Sergel (external scan)
Major James Rennel and the Rise of Modern English Geography (1895) London, Cassell & Co (external scan)
The paladins of Edwin the Great (1896) London, Adam & Charles Black (external scan)
Richard III: his life and character (1906) London, Smith, Elder & Co
The Story of Minorca and Majorca (1909) London, Smith, Elder & Co (external scan)
The Incas of Peru (1912) London, John Murray (transcription project)
The Lands of Silence (completed by F.H.H. Guillemard) (1921) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Translations

Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639. (1859), London, The Hakluyt Society
Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour, at Samarcand, A.D. 1403-6. (1859), London, The Hakluyt Society
The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman, a Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543. (1862), London, The Hakluyt Society
The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the First Part of his Chronicle of Peru. (1864), London, The Hakluyt Society
Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila by Pascual de Andagoya (1865), London, The Hakluyt Society
First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega. Volume I (1869); Volume II (1871), London, The Hakluyt Society
Reports on the Discovery of Peru (1872), London, The Hakluyt Society
Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas (1873), London, The Hakluyt Society
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies (1880), London, The Hakluyt Society
The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León (1883), London, The Hakluyt Society
The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career (1894) (external scan)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

"Arctic Ice-Travels" in Popular Science Monthly, 7 (August 1875)
Comment on (p.344) "Proposed System of Continuous Polar Exploration" in Popular Science Monthly, 49 (July 1896)

Contributions to the DNB

Contribution to EB1911

"Peru," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History (in part))

As editor

Ocean Highways

Works about Markham

"Markham, Clements Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)
"Markham, Sir Clements Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Markham, Sir Clements Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
"Markham, Sir Clements Robert," in Dictionary of Indian Biography (p. 275), by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906)
"Knighthood: Clements Robert Markham," in The Times (1896)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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