Explorers
Subtitle: the most exciting voyages of discovery--from the African expeditions to the lunar landing
By: Andrea De Porti ; [English translation, Paul Holberton]
Contributors: Holberton, Paul
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Richmond Hill, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781554079223
Subjects: Découvertes géographiques; Explorateurs; Discoveries in geography; Histoire; Explorers; History
Description: "Innovative foldout pages provide an amazing visual reference to major expeditions of discovery from the past 150 years."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Translation of: Esploratori.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-56) and index.
Table of contents: title: The explorers. Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke; title: Ernest Doudart de Lagrée and Francis Garnier; title: David Livingstone, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs; title: Henry Morton Stanley; title: Timothy O'Sullivan, Challenger; title: Nikolai Mihkailovich Przhevalsky; title: Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Teobert Maler; title: John William Lindt, Vittorio Bottego; title: Fridtjof Nansen, Vittorio Sella; title: Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie; title: Isabella Bird Bishop; title: Jean-Baptiste Marchand; title: Francis Younghusband; title: Alfred Wegener; title: Robert Peary and Matthew Henson; title: Jean-Baptiste Charcot; title: Sven Hedin; title: Roald Amundsen; title: Robert Falcon Scott; title: Katherine Routledge; title: Gertrude Bell; title: Cândido Rondon and Theodore Roosevelt; title: Ernest Shackleton; title: Ferdinand von Zeppelin and Hugo Eckener; title: Howard Carter; title: Rosita Forbes and Ahmed Hassanein Bey; title: Alexandra David-Néel; title: André Citroën; title: Charles Lindbergh; title: Albert H. MacCarthy; title: Umberto Nobile; title: Aimone di Savoia; title: Ardito Desio; title: Freya Stark; title: Théodore Monod; title: Hans Hass; title: Maria Reiche; title: Edmund Hillary; title: Thor Heyerdahl; title: William R. Anderson; title: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; title: Neil Armstrong; title: The Apollo missions.