Pathfinders
A Global History of Exploration
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 27 September 2007
- ISBN 9780199219339
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 246x189x20 mm
- Weight 1044 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 38 black and white halftones; 8pp colour plates; 43 maps 0
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Short description:
Pathfinders tells the epic story of human exploration, from the earliest migratory wanderings that scattered human societies across the planet to the great voyages of discovery that started linking them up again, and finally to the conquering of the final geographical frontiers in the twentieth century.
MoreLong description:
Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again.
Pathfinders tells the epic story of how the route-finders did it: who they were, where they came from, where they went, how they coped with the unknown, how they developed the techniques and technologies they needed, how they paid for it, how they suffered for it, and - perhaps most curious of all - why they bothered.
From the earliest migratory wanderings that scattered human societies across the planet to the great voyages of discovery that started linking them up again, and finally to the conquering of the final geographical frontiers in the twentieth century, Fernández-Armesto reveals the real flesh-and-blood, the vainglory and fantasy that motivated the pathfinders of the world.
[A] marvellosuly panoramic overview of world exploration... amid the thought-provoking big picture, Fernandez-Armesto also wields the miniaturist's pen.
Table of Contents:
Stretching: The First Trail-Finders from Gathering Cultures to Great Empires
Reaching: Exploring the Oceans to About a Thousand Years Ago
Stirring: Landward Explorations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Springing: The Maritime Turn of the Late Middle Ages and the Penetration of the Atlantic
Vaulting: The Great Leap Forward of the 1490s
Girdling: Connecting Global Routes, c. 1500-1620
Connecting: Global Reconvergence, c. 1620-1740
Deepening: Enhancing the World-Picture, c. 1740s-c.1840s
Globalizing: The Narrowing World, c. 1850 to c. 2000
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