| Description |
304 pages : color illustrations, color maps, portraits ; 27 cm |
| Note |
"With 420 illustrations, 331 in color" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index. |
| Contents |
Ancient world. Out of Africa ; Into a New World ; Early Pacific voyagers ; Egyptian explorers ; Herodotus ; Xenophon ; Alexander the Great ; Pytheas the Greek ; Hannibal ; St Paul ; The Emperor Hadrian -- Medieval world. Early Chinese travellers on the Silk Road ; Early voyagers to America ; Christian pilgrimages ; Muslim pilgrimages ; Genghis Khan ; Marco Polo ; Ibn Battuta ; Zheng He, the Grand Eunuch -- The Renaissance. Christopher Columbus ; Vasco da Gama ; Ludovico di Varthema ; Ferdinand Magellan ; Hernán Cortés ; Francisco Pizarro ; Francisco de Orellana ; Early explorers of North America ; Francis Drake ; Samuel de Champlain ; Early searchers for the Northwest Passage -- 17th & 18th centuries. Abel Tasman ; Maria Sibylla Merian ; Ippolito Desideri ; Vitus Bering ; James Bruce ; James Cook ; Jean-François de Lapérouse ; Alexander Mackenzie ; Mungo Park -- 19th century. Alexander von Humboldt ; Lewis & Clark ; Jean Louis Burckhardt ; Charles Darwin & the Beagle ; The Trail of Tears ; Journeys into the Mexican jungle ; Later searchers for the Northwest Passage ; Heinrich Barth & the Central African Mission ; Search for the source of the Nile ; Crossing Australia ; Into the heart of Africa ; The Mekong River Expedition ; Travels in Arabia Deserta ; The Northeast Passage ; The Pundits explore Tibet ; Exploring Central & East Asia -- Modern times. Journeys across Asia ; To the North Pole ; Race to the South Pole ; Shackleton & the Endurance ; Women travellers in Asia ; First to fly the Atlantic solo ; Women pioneers of flight ; The Long March ; Thor Heyerdahl & the Kon-Tiki ; Scaling Everest ; Single-handed around the world ; To the moon and back ; Voyages to the bottom of the ocean ; Round the world by balloon ; Mars, Jupiter, and beyond. |
| Subject |
Discoveries in geography.
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Voyages and travels.
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Travelers -- Anecdotes.
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Adventure and adventurers.
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Travelers' writings, English.
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| Added Author |
Hanbury-Tenison, Robin.
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| Added Title |
70 great journeys in history |
| ISBN |
0500251290 hardback |
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9780500251294 hardback |
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