The Beagle’s library of more than 400 books has been reconstructed and made freely available in digital form
HMS Beagle’s library was reconstructed using letters sent by crew members, Darwin’s notebooks and his surviving book collection. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
This news feature is just one of more than 5,400 historical and contemporary resources relating to approximately 250 separate nations primarily in the Americas—but also including groups in Africa, New Zealand, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Russia. In addition to the topics above, resources address the environment, religion and spirituality, sports and athletics, food, genealogy, education,…
6 950 articles, 7 015 photos, 417 cartes, 900 histoires d’unités, 1 746 critiques de livres et plus de 5 545 500 mots d’articles originaux. Nous ne nous contentons pas de couvrir les conflits les plus connus, bien que nous ayons une bonne couverture de la Première et de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des guerres…
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