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The Great Explorers Robin Hanbury-Tenison

The Great Explorers By Robin Hanbury-Tenison

The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison


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Profiles forty of the worlds greatest explorers, from Europe, America, Asia and Australia.

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The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison

This book profiles forty of the world's greatest explorers, from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. These are the men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous explorations, opening our eyes to the physical, natural and historical wealth around us. Under the aegis of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, hailed by the Sunday Times as `the greatest explorer of the past twenty years', an international team of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters and historians describes these great explorers' lives, motives and passions in a series of penetrating biographies, illustrated throughout with beautiful paintings, photographs, engravings and maps.

The Great Explorers Reviews

'A monumental tome that's a genuine contribution to modern thinking about the nature of exploration ... the essays are first class ... nigh-on perfect' - Bookdealer
'Exceptional ... superb illustrations add a revealing dimension to the literary narrative' - Country Life
'Beautifully illustrated' - Geographical Reviews
'Absorbing, factually tight, sensitive to its Eurocentricity, it gathers together a host of valuable essays' - Guardian

About Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known explorer, author, film-maker, conservationist and campaigner. A veteran of over forty expeditions, he is a leading member of the Royal Geographical Society and Survival International. His books include The Seventy Great Journeys in History and, as editor, The Oxford Book of Exploration.

Table of Contents

General Introduction. 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; Robert Mackenzie; Mungo Park; John Hanning Speke; David Livingstone; Henry Morton Stanley; Francis Garnier. 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 Eavis. List of Contributors; Further Reading; Sources of Illustrations; Index

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CIN050025169XVG
9780500251690
050025169X
The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2010-10-04
304
N/A
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