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In "An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal," Francis Hamilton presents a pioneering exploration of Nepal's geography, culture, and society during the early 19th century. Employing a meticulous observational style, Hamilton integrates travel narrative with ethnographic inquiry, offering a rare glimpse into the customs and traditions of the Nepalese people. His tome serves not only as a cartographic guide, reflecting the intense European curiosity about the region during the Age of Exploration, but also as an essential historical document that situates Nepal within the larger context of Himalayan geopolitics and British colonial interests. Hamilton, a Scottish physician and naturalist, was influen...
This book explores Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - understood in multiple ways - in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith's career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England.
Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.
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