Explorers : great tales of adventure and endurance / Royal Geographical Society ; [written by Alasdair Macleod].
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : DK in association with the Smithsonian Institution, 2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 360 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 31 cmISBN: - 0756667372 (hbk.)
- 9780756667375 (hbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind's knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.
"Written by Alasdair Macleod" -- t.p. verso. "Foreword by Sir Ranulph Fiennes"--Cover.
Includes index.
A lavish visual survey of the world's greatest explorers, revealing who they were, where they went, and how their expeditions shaped the course of human history.