100 Greatest Explorers
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Author | : Michael Pollard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
ISBN | : 9781850283089 |
The stories of adventurers who have set out from their native lands on great journeys of exploration, always in danger and sometimes at the cost of their lives.
Author | : William Scheller |
Publisher | : The Oliver Press, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1992-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781881508038 |
Relates the enterprises and discoveries of twelve explorers, including Vasco da Gama, Captain James Cook, and Roald Amundsen.
Author | : Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0500774315 |
Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. 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.
Author | : Joshua George |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-08-31 |
Genre | : Explorers |
ISBN | : 9781787009967 |
"Travel back in time and meet the explorers! Who was Leif Erikson? What did Christopher Columbus discover? When was the moon landing? Find the answers to these questions and more with interactive flaps that bring history to life. Don't just read about the explorers ... meet them!"--Page 4 of cover
Author | : R D Villam |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-22 |
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Publisher | : Paw Prints |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781442068025 |
A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers. This book begins with the ancient explorers, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, and includes the reasons behind exploration, and how technology and exploration have gone hand-in-hand throughout history.
Author | : Michelle Rosenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781526731036 |
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 779 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 0195042220 |
This abridgement of the late Samuel Eliot Morison's magnum opus, The European Discovery of America, which the Journal of Southern History called "an epic work of true grandeur," and the Virginia Quarterly Review considered "a great book by a great historian," preserves the originality, scholarship, and vivid descriptions of the original volumes.
Author | : Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publisher | : Connell Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781911187868 |
Throughout history, a handful of unusually driven individuals have been inspired to explore the limits of the known world, inspiring us and changing our perceptions of our planet through their courageous adventures. What is it that makes these men and women risk their lives in desperate, often fatal efforts to discover distant and inaccessible places? Robin Hanbury-Tenison, himself one of the most distinguished explorers of the 20th century, looks at the greatest of their kind in history, bringing their experiences to life in vivid and compelling anecdotes and drawing on their own first-hand accounts. Among the explorers he features are some who are well known, like James Cook and David Livingstone, and some less so, such as Herodotus, the first European to record an expedition, and Nain Singh, who walked huge distances to map the forbidden lands of Tibet, counting every pace. And he asks: what was it, and is it, that motivates these unusual people? And how have they enriched our world through their adventures?
Author | : John Guy |
Publisher | : Bounty Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
ISBN | : 9780753724941 |