Explorers: Great Tales of Adventure and Endurance - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0756667372 ISBN 13: 9780756667375

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, 2010

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub the Date: September. 2010 Pages: 360 in Publisher: penguin the From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet. The urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations. taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers. with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions. the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words. rare maps. specially commissioned photographs. and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize. to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal. Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers. turned voids into maps. forged nations. connected cultures. a...

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Product Description:

This guide provides an overview of 50 of the world’s most famous explorers who were motivated by colonization, scientific curiosity or missionary zeal to experience new frontiers, including first-person accounts of their expeditions, rare maps and artwork depicting their travels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0756667372
• ISBN 13: 9780756667375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360