Robin Hanbury-Tenison

The Great Explorers

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Produktbeschreibung

A beautifully illustrated survey of 500 years of exploration told through a series of biographical portraits of forty of the most outstanding men and women who discovered our world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780500293836
• ISBN-10: 050029383X
• Artikelnr.: 51246200

Autorenporträt

Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known explorer, author, filmmaker, 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 Great Explorers and The Modern Explorers.

Inhaltsangabe

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