Valedictory

Towards midnight on 27 June 1787, it was clear, serene and moonlit, Edward Gibbon, certainly the greatest historian of his own, and possibly of any other, era laid down his pen after having written the last lines of his masterpiece The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire . He did thi...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Stone, Ian R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247416000504
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247416000504