The Explorer's Eye: First-Hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585677663 ISBN 13: 9781585677665

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Combining firsthand accounts with original images in vintage black and white and brilliant color, The Explorer's Eye, gives insights into who these men and women were, how they operated, and what they saw. Here you have Alexander von Humboldt braving the electric eels of South Africa, Umberto Nobile lamenting the loss of his Zeppelin in an ice floe, and Jacques Cousteau examining the planet from under the waves. Drawing on a multinational archive of explorer s logs, with expert commentary to set each expedition in context and an introduction by Michael Palin, this book is a unique look at the world we inhabit.

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Review:

We're all hooked on heroes...and here's a magnificent book packed with more than 50 of them, carrying first hand accounts and original pictures from the bravest of the brave, capturing the golden moments of adventure - triumphant, dramatic, perilous and tragic...Quite wonderful. (MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS (20.8.05))

The Explorer's Eye is the story of exploration through the protagonists' illustrations as well as words, and the pleasure of it is that these match the text in their ingenuity and originality...This is an absorbing, stirriing and altogether welcome addition to my overcrowded shelves of traveller's tales. I recommend every armchair traveller (and any one else in need of inspiration) to find space for their own copy. (Benedict Allen INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (25.9.05))

A gripping collection of diary entries, photographs and sketches of 50 explorers. (WANDERLUST (October 2005))

an enchanting read...gripping reading. (Sara Wheeler GUARDIAN (15.10.05))

In the great age of exploration, many of the scientists, sailors and adventures who roamed the world chronicled their thoughts and feelings, creating a vivid portrait of the unknown. This anthology offers 50 such personal accounts, from the likes of David Livingstone, Captain Cook and Ernest Shackleton, illustrated with period images. (TRAVELLER (Sept/Oct 2005))

[a] gripping first hand testimony...wonderfully exciting and yet enjoyably un-portentous. (Michael Kerrigan SCOTSMAN (17.12.05))

An immensely readable selection of eyewitness accounts of 54 journeys into the unknown. Superb illustrations accompany this exhilarating, chronologically organised collection. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE (January 2006))

crisply designed, superbly illustrated and utterly absorbing...a true treasure trove. (WARSHIP INTERNATIONAL FLEET REVIEW (January 2006))

If you buy just one book on exploration, this should be it. (SUNDAY BUSINESS POST (18.12.05))

Book Description:

The golden moments of exploration and adventure - glorious, triumphant, perilous and dramatic - captured in the words and illustrations of 50 explorers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1585677663
• ISBN 13: 9781585677665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Fleming Fergus, Merullo Annabel