TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS
BECCARI, O.
Italian naturalist.
- "Wanderings in the great forest of Borneo." Tr. E.Giglioli. Rev. and ed. F.Guillemard.
BECK, M.E.
- "Through Egypt to Palestine." Birmingham / 1873.
BECKFORD, William
1760-1844
Author of "Vathek", owner of Fonthill, MP. Travelled widely on the continent.
- "Italy, with sketches of Spain and Portugal." 1834.
- "Recollections of an excusion to the monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha." 1835. Repr. With original 1794 journal London / 2006.
- Travel diaries ed. G.Chapman, 1928.
BECKFORD, William
d.1799.
Historian of Jamaica, where he lived for many years. (Not father of the preceding, though same name. See DNB).
BEECHEY, George D.
fl. 1817-1855.
Painter. Became court painter to the King of Oudh.
BEECHEY, Henry William
d.1870-
Painter. Brother of painters George D. BEECHEY and Sir William Beechey (1753-1839). With exploring expeditions up the Nile. Coastal survey (Libya) with F.W. Beechey (DNB has "brother George").
BEECKMAN, Capt. Daniel
E.Indies 1714. Ist European description of the orang-outang.
- "A voyage to and from the island of Borneo..." London / 1718 / Warner & Batley.
BEERBOHM, Julius
- "Wanderings in Patagonia." London / 1890 (or earlier-) / Chatto & Windus.
BEESTON, Sir William
fl. 1702
Jamaica.
BEGER, Bruno
b. 1911
Nazi "anthropologist". Accompanied Ernst SCHÄFER on SS/Ahnenerbe Expedition to Tibet 1938-9. Later implicated in collecting skulls of concentration camp victims for Dr August Hirt.
- "Mit der Deutschen Tibetexpedition... nach Lhasa." Wiesbaden / 1998.
