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Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
1830–1916
A tireless Victorian traveler and organizer of exploration, he helped shape British geography and polar discovery while writing widely about Peru, navigation, and famous expeditions. His life joins sea voyages, scholarship, and the age of Antarctic ambition in one remarkable story.
6 Audiobooks
Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research
by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
Apu Ollantay: A Drama of the Time of the Incas
by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
The lands of silence : A history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration
by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.
by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
The Story of Majorca and Minorca
by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
The Paladins of Edwin the Great
by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
About the author
Born in Yorkshire in 1830, Sir Clements Robert Markham was an English geographer, explorer, and prolific writer. As a teenager he entered the Royal Navy and took part in a voyage to the Arctic, an early experience that helped spark his lifelong fascination with exploration.
Markham later became a central figure in British geographical life through the Royal Geographical Society, serving first as secretary and then as president. He played an important part in promoting major expeditions, especially the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901, and he also worked extensively as an editor, translator, and historian of travel.
Alongside his public work, he wrote a large number of books on exploration, Peru, history, and biography. He died in London in 1916, remembered as one of the key champions of Victorian and Edwardian exploration.