| Description |
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index. |
| Contents |
I. Antiquity -- 1. The Secrets of the Southern Seas -- II. South America -- 2. The Unfortunate Conquistador: Orellana, 1540-1545 -- 3. The Mutinous Conquistador: Aguirre, 1559-1561-- 4. The Man Who Met the Amazons: Quesada, 1569-1572; Berrio, 1580-1590; -- Sir Walter Raleigh, 1595-1618; Bernard O'Brien, 1620-1634 -- 5. Measuring the Earth: De La Condamine, 1735-1744 -- 6. The Penelope of Riobamba, 1745-1770 -- 7. The Nude Baroness: Elisa von Wagner, 1932-1934 -- III. Africa -- 8. Joan of Arc of the Kongo, 1483-1706 -- 9. The Impossible Lakes: Burton, Speke, and Grant, 1848-1858 -- 10. The Nile Unveiled: Burton, Speke, and Grant, 1860-1864 -- 11. The Missing Lake: Baker, 1864-1865 -- 12. The Man-Eaters: Carlo Piaggia, 1863; Georg Schweinfurth, 1868 -- 13. The Front Page: Henry Morton Stanley and Dr. Livingstone, 1866-1877 -- 14. The Conquest of Equatoria, 1869-1873 -- 15. The Calamities of Equatoria: Baker, 1873; Lord Gordon, 1880-1885; -- Stanley and Emin Bey, 1887-1893 -- 16. Heart of Darkness, 1878-1905 -- IV. Asia/Oceania -- 17. Maluku: Magellan and the Spice Islands, 1519-1521 -- 18. The White Raja: Sir James Brooke, 1839-1868 -- 19. Around the World in Thirty-five Hours: Krakatoa, 1883 -- 20. Tusitala in Equator Town: Robert Louis Stevenson in the Gilbert Islands, 1889-1894. |
| Subject |
Discoveries in geography.
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Explorers.
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| Added Author |
Shugaar, Antony.
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| Added Title |
Latitude 0 |
| ISBN |
0786709014 |
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