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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir Clements Robert Markham (1830–1916)

Markham, Clements Robert. An English traveler, geographer, and historian; born at Stillingfleet, near York, July 20, 1830; died in 1916. He accompanied an arctic expedition in 1851; visited Peru 1852–54; visited Peru and India as commissioner to introduce cinchona plants into the latter country, 1860; was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society 1863–88; accompanied the Abyssinian expedition 1867–68. He wrote: ‘Travels in Peru and India’ (1862); ‘History of the Abyssinian Expedition’ (1869); ‘History of Peru’ (1892); etc.