Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars /
Rader, Andrew
Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars / Andrew Rader. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - viii, 344 pages : maps ; 24 cm
"November 2019"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
Introduction -- Part I: In the beginning. Out of the cradle ; Early wanderings ; People of the sea ; Antiquity ; The classical world -- Part II: Rediscovering the world. Barbarians from the North ; Early contacts ; The other Mediterranean ; China's age of exploration ; A sea route to India ; Plunder and gold ; Around the world -- Part III: Modernity. Empires of trade ; Opening continents ; Frontiers of science ; Lands of ice and snow ; To the sky ; The space race ; Seeing through robotic eyes -- Part IV: Becoming Star Trek. Into the future ; The road to Mars ; Becoming spacefaring ; Going interstellar ; Life on other worlds ; The ultimate destination -- Epilogue.
"A survey of the history and future of human exploration, replete with fun facts about the results of cultural exchanges and the discovery of new frontiers"--
9781982123536 1982123532 9781982123550 1982123559
2019002126
Discoveries in geography--History.
Discoveries in geography--Social aspects.
Outer space--Exploration.
Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars / Andrew Rader. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - viii, 344 pages : maps ; 24 cm
"November 2019"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
Introduction -- Part I: In the beginning. Out of the cradle ; Early wanderings ; People of the sea ; Antiquity ; The classical world -- Part II: Rediscovering the world. Barbarians from the North ; Early contacts ; The other Mediterranean ; China's age of exploration ; A sea route to India ; Plunder and gold ; Around the world -- Part III: Modernity. Empires of trade ; Opening continents ; Frontiers of science ; Lands of ice and snow ; To the sky ; The space race ; Seeing through robotic eyes -- Part IV: Becoming Star Trek. Into the future ; The road to Mars ; Becoming spacefaring ; Going interstellar ; Life on other worlds ; The ultimate destination -- Epilogue.
"A survey of the history and future of human exploration, replete with fun facts about the results of cultural exchanges and the discovery of new frontiers"--
9781982123536 1982123532 9781982123550 1982123559
2019002126
Discoveries in geography--History.
Discoveries in geography--Social aspects.
Outer space--Exploration.