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The great explorers
Title
The great explorers / edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison.
ISBN
9780500251690 (hbk.)
050025169X (hbk.)
Published
London : Thames & Hudson, 2010.
Physical Description
304 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 17, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Searching beyond the horizon
The oceans
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
James Cook
The land
Hernando de Soto
Lewis and Clark
Thomas Baines
Richard Burton
Nain Singh
Nikolai Przhevalsky
Ney Elias
Francis Younghusband
Marc Aurel Stein
Rivers
Samuel de Champlain
James Bruce
Alexander Mackenzie
Mungo Park
John Hanning Speke
David Livingstone
Francis Garnier
Henry Morton Stanley
Polar ice
Fridtjof Nansen
Edward Wilson
Roald Amundsen
Wally Herbert
Deserts
Heinrich Barth
Charles Sturt
Gertrude Bell
Harry St. John Philby
Ralph Bagnold
Wilfred Thesiger
Life on earth
Alexander von Humboldt
Marianne North
Alfred Russel Wallace
Frank Kingdon-Ward
New Frontiers
Gino Watkins
Yuri Gagarin
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Andrew James Eavis.
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