The Great Explorers.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. First edition. Fine copy of the first edition in a fine dust jacket. This book profiles forty of the worlds greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. These men & women's courageous explorations revealed the world to us. Robin Hanbury-Tenison, hailed by the Sunday Times as the greatest explorer of the past twenty years, lead the project. 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. 4to, 10'' x 8'', [vi] 304pp, with color & b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Item #26508
ISBN: 9780500251690
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