The great explorers
By: edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780500251690
Subjects: Explorers; Biography
Description: Presents biographies of forty explorers that reveal their lives, motives, and passions while discovering different parts of the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Searching beyond the horizon; title: The oceans; title: Christopher Columbus; title: Vasco da Gama; title: Ferdinand Magellan; title: Louis-Antoine de Bougainville; title: James Cook; title: The land; title: Hernando de Soto; title: Lewis and Clark; title: Thomas Baines; title: Richard Burton; title: Nain Singh; title: Nikolai Przhevalsky; title: Ney Elias; title: Francis Younghusband; title: Marc Aurel Stein; title: Rivers; title: Samuel de Champlain; title: James Bruce; title: Alexander Mackenzie; title: Mungo Park; title: John Hanning Speke; title: David Livingstone; title: Francis Garnier; title: Henry Morton Stanley; title: Polar ice; title: Fridtjof Nansen; title: Edward Wilson; title: Roald Amundsen; title: Wally Herbert; title: Deserts; title: Heinrich Barth; title: Charles Sturt; title: Gertrude Bell; title: Harry St. John Philby; title: Ralph Bagnold; title: Wilfred Thesiger; title: Life on earth; title: Alexander von Humboldt; title: Marianne North; title: Alfred Russel Wallace; title: Frank Kingdon-Ward; title: New Frontiers; title: Gino Watkins; title: Yuri Gagarin; title: Jacques-Yves Cousteau; title: Andrew James Eavis.