TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS
BELL, John
1763-1820
Surgeon. Travelled for his health.
- "Observations on Itlay." 1825.
BELL, Sir Charles Alfred
1870-1945
Indian adminstrator, political officer Sikkim, etc.
- "Tibet past and present." 1924.
See also CLAUDE-WHITE
BELLEW, Henry Walter
1834-1892
Surgeon-General. Crimea, Afghanisatan. Published journals.
BELLINGSHAUSEN, Capt. Thaddeus von
177-1852
Russian naval oficer. In 1819-21 circumnavigated the Antacrtic in 2 ships (Vostok and Mirny). Reached 70°S.
- "The voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic seas...." Tr. from Russian. 1945 / Hakluyt Society (Series II, nos. 91-2).
BELLOT, Lt. Joseph René
1826-1853
2-in-C under KENNEDY on FRANKLIN search expedition of 1851-2. Died by falling into an ice-crevasse while on a second expedition under INGLEFIELD (see MM #893).
- "Memoirs..... with his journal of a voyage in the Polar Seas in search of Sir John FRANKLIN." 2 vols. London / 1855 / Hurst & Blackett. (Tr. of Fr. original).
BELON, Pierre
1517-1564
Travels in Asia Minor and Near East, 1546-49. Murdered by robbers while gathering herbs in the Bois de Boulogne.
- "...Observations... en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays..." Paris / 1553.
BELT, Thomas
1832-1878
Geologist - Australia, Nova Scotia, Nicaragua. D. Denver, Colorado.
- "The naturalist in Nicaragua."
BELZONI, Giovanni Battista
1778-1823
Italian, son of a barber. Ed. for monastic life. Came to England 1803. Worked as circus strong man. Interested in hydraulics. Employed by Mehmet Ali on archaeological work. In 1823 set out for Timbuktu but died at Gato (Benin).
- "Excavations in Egypt and Nubia." 1819.
- "Narrative of recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tobs and excavations in Egypt and Nubia." London / 1820. Repr. cat.1970 /Gregg.
BEN SOLOMON, Job
See: MOORE, Francis.
BENALCAZAR, Sebastian de
Lietenant of PIZARRO. See also, JIMENEZ DE QUESADA.