The Oxford book of exploration / selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
- Bib ID:
- 3303184
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- Book
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- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
- xvi, 576 p. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0192805568
- Summary:
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"This is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences." "The book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot and Sir Francis Drake, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, to the Poles with Robert Peary and Captain Scott, and beyond the Earth with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Introduction 0
- I. Asia 1
- II. Africa 000
- III. North America 000
- IV. Central and South America 000
- V. The Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand 000
- VI. The Arctic 000
- VII. The Antarctic 000
- VIII. Below and Above 000
- Bibliography 000
- Source acknowledgements 000
- Index 000.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: 1993.
- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Discoveries in geography
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hanbury-Tenison, Robin
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- Publication date:
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