The modern explorers
By: edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and Robert Twigger
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780500516843
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; Explorers; History
Description: Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. This title deals with this topic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploration: an alliance with adventure; title: Frostbitten fingers / Ranulph Fiennes; title: Skiing solo to the South Pole / Liv Arnesen; title: Alone across antarctica coast to coast / Børge Ousland; title: Measuring the Arctic sea ice / Pen Hadow; title: A year in Siberia / Mikael Strandberg; title: Across the Sahara sideways / Michael Asher; title: Walking across Australia unassisted / Jon Muir; title: The sand dunes of the Kum Tagh / John Hare; title: The forty days road by camel / Arita Baaijens; title: Egypt's great sand sea on foot / Robert Twigger; title: The Taklamakan: desert of no return / Bruno Baumann; title: Plant-hunting in the Amazon / Ghillean Prance; title: The last Sertanista / Sydney Possuelo; title: Unconventional explorations of a conservationist in the 21st century / J. Michael Fay; title: Traversing the Darien Gap / Wade Davis; title: Exploring the forest canopy by balloon / Meg Lowman; title: Interactive in the heart of Borneo / Martin Holland; title: The Siachen Glacier: ice highway / Stephen Venables; title: Shivling: climbing the unclimbed / Chris Bonington; title: First British woman to climb Everest / Rebecca Stephens; title: Standing on the edge of an eruption / Haraldur Sigurdsson; title: Dizz fingers: to the summit of 'El Cap' / Karen Darke; title: Sailing the Atlantic in a leather boat / Tim Severin; title: A never-ending ocean journey / Henk De Velde; title: The Northwest passage by sail / Jeff Macinnis; title: Kayaking the Solomon Islands chain / Jon Turk; title: Pedal-power across the pacific / Jason Lewis; title: The Congo, giant of rivers / John Blashford-Snell; title: South America north to south / Robin Hanbury-Tenison; title: Africa east to west by boat / Mirella and Lorenzo Ricciardi; title: The true source of the Yellow River / Wong How Man; title: Where the Mekong rises / Michel Peissel; title: Diving into the past / George Bass; title: Mulu: deep under Borneo / Andy Eavis; title: Caving in the Islands of Patagonia / Jean-François Pernette; title: Dinosaur-hunting in Mongolia / Mark Norell; title: In search of King Solomon's mines / Tahir Shah; title: Sunken worlds / Franck Goddio; title: Inca mummies on Andean peaks / Johan Reinhard.