The great explorers
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 o...
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London :
Thames & Hudson
2010
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Searching beyond the horizon
- The oceans
- Christopher Columbus
- Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
- James Cook
- The land
- Hernando de Soto
- Lewis and Clark
- Thomas Baines
- Richard Burton
- Nain Singh
- Nikolai Przhevalsky
- Ney Elias
- Francis Younghusband
- Marc Aurel Stein
- Rivers
- Samuel de Champlain
- James Bruce
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Mungo Park
- John Hanning Speke
- David Livingstone
- Francis Garnier
- Henry Morton Stanley
- Polar ice
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Edward Wilson
- Roald Amundsen
- Wally Herbert
- Deserts
- Heinrich Barth
- Charles Sturt
- Gertrude Bell
- Harry St. John Philby
- Ralph Bagnold
- Wilfred Thesiger
- Life on earth
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Marianne North
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Frank Kingdon-Ward
- New Frontiers
- Gino Watkins
- Yuri Gagarin
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Andrew James Eavis.
