Latitude zero
Subtitle: tales of the Equator
By: Gianni Guadalupi and Antony Shugaar.
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Equator -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography; Voyages and travels; Explorers -- Equator
Other titles: Latitude 0
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. ANTIQUITY 1; title: 1. The Secrets of the Southern Seas 6; title: II. SOUTH AMERICA 19; title: 2. The Unfortunate Conquistador: Orellana, 1540-1545 24; title: 3. The Mutinous Conquistador: Aguirre, 1559-1561 36; title: 4. The Man Who Met the Amazons: Quesada, 1569-1572; Berrio, 1580-1590;; title: Sir Walter Raleigh, 1595-1618; Bernard O'Brien, 1620-1634 45; title: 5. Measuring the Earth: De La Condamine, 1735-1744 55; title: 6. The Penelope of Riobamba, 1745-1770 65; title: 7. The Nude Baroness: Elisa von Wagner, 1932-1934 75; title: III. AFRICA 85; title: 8. Joan of Arc of the Kongo, 1483-1706 89; title: 9. The Impossible Lakes: Burton, Speke, and Grant, 1848-1858 98; title: 10. The Nile Unveiled: Burton, Speke, and Grant, 1860-1864 108; title: 11. The Missing Lake: Baker, 1864-1865 119; title: 12. The Man-Eaters: Carlo iaggia, 1863; Georg Schweinfurth, 1868 128; title: 13. The Front Page: Henry Morton Stanley and Dr. Livingstone, 1866-1877 134; title: 14. The Conquest of Equatoria, 1869-1873 150; title: 15. The Calamities of Equatoria: Baker, 1873; Lord Gordon, 1880-1885;; title: Stanley and Emin Bey, 1887-1893 160; title: 16. Heart of Darkness, 1878-1905 181; title: IV. ASIA/OCEANIA 195; title: 17. Maluku: Magellan and the Spice Islands, 1519-1521 199; title: 18. The White Raja: Sir James Brooke, 1839-1868 214; title: 19. Around the World in Thirty-five Hours: Krakatoa, 1883 235; title: 20. Tusitala in Equator Town: Robert Louis Stevenson in the Gilbert Islands, 1889-1894 240.