Explorers' Sketchbooks
The Art of Discovery & Adventure
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Product details:
- Publisher Thames & Hudson
- Date of Publication 29 September 2016
- ISBN 9780500252192
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 35x194x275 mm
- Weight 1440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations With over 400 illustrations in colour and black and white 0
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Long description:
Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers pockets that hasnt changed much at all the journal. The sketchbooks and journals presented here allow us the opportunity to share, through their own eyes and thoughts, the on-the-spot reactions of around 70 intrepid individuals as they journeyed into frozen wastes, high mountains, barren deserts and rich rainforests. Some are well known, such as Captain Scott, Charles Darwin, Thor Heyerdahl and Abel Tasman; others are unfamiliar, including Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make an unparalleled record of Maya monuments, and Alexandrine Tinne, who died in her attempt to be the first woman to cross the Sahara. Here are pioneering explorers and map-makers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries, men and women. A handful of living explorers, including Wade Davis, provide their thoughts on the art of exploration.
Often battered and neglected, stored away and perhaps long forgotten, many of these sketchbooks have themselves awaited rediscovery. Now is the chance to open them again... Includes a foreword by Robert Macfarlane and essays by several living explorers, among them Ghillean Prance, Alan Bean and Wade Davis. Includes a foreword by Robert Macfarlane and essays by several living explorers, among them Ghillean Prance, Alan Bean and Wade Davis.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Robert Macfarlane
- Introduction: These Rough Notes, Huw Lewis
-Jones & Kari Herbert
- The Sketchbooks
- Essays: This Glorious Forest, Ghillean Prance; Another World, Alan Bean; Infinite Beauty, Tony Foster; Indispensable Friends, David Ainley; Making Marks, Wade Davis
