Great Explorers - Hardcover

Hanbury-Tenison, Robin

 
9780500251690: Great Explorers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 050025169X ISBN 13: 9780500251690
Verlag: THAMES & HUDSON, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

It has always been mankind s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures.Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers.Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words.Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known explorer, author, film-maker, conservationist and campaigner. A veteran of over forty expeditions, he is a leading member of the Royal Geographical Society and Survival International. His books include The Seventy Great Journeys in History and, as editor, The Oxford Book of Exploration.

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This book profiles forty of the worlds greatest explorers, from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. These are the men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous explorations, opening our eyes to the physical, natural and historical wealth around us. Under the aegis of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, hailed by the Sunday Times as the greatest explorer of the past twenty years, an international team of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters and historians describes these great explorers lives, motives and passions in a series of penetrating biographies, illustrated throughout with beautiful paintings, photographs, engravings and maps.

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Verlag
THAMES & HUDSON
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
050025169X
ISBN 13 
9780500251690
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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