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The great explorers edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison - London Thames & Hudson 2010 - 304 p. ill. (some col.), col. maps 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Searching beyond the horizon -- The 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 -- Alexander Mackenzie -- Mungo Park -- John Hanning Speke -- David Livingstone -- Francis Garnier -- Henry Morton Stanley -- 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 James Eavis

ISBN: 050025169X (hbk.) 9780500251690 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Explorers--Biography

LC Class. No.: G 200 / .G74 2010