The Oxford Book of Exploration
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 17 March 2005
- ISBN 9780192805560
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages692 pages
- Size 196x129x35 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, described by the Sunday Times in 1982 as the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', The New Oxford Book of Exploration is a comprehensive anthology of the writing of explorers through the ages, fully revised and with additional biographical and introductory material. The ultimate in travel writing, by legends such as Vasco da Gama, Marco Polo, Sir Francis Drake, Roald Amundsen, and Wilfred Thesiger, these are the words of
those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences.
Long description:
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, described by the Sunday Times as the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', 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.
Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal
what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
[An] enthralling archive.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I Asia
II Africa
III North America
IV Central and South America
V The Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand
VI The Arctic
VII The Antarctic
VIII Above and Below
Bibliography
Source acknowledgements
Index
