The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 January 2007
- ISBN 9780195149227
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1072 pages
- Size 224x287x76 mm
- Weight 2962 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 150 halftones throughout; 50 color photos in inserts 0
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Short description:
An illustrated reference covering all topics of exploration worldwide, Including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions, and the space age. The Oxford Companion to World Exploration is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.
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This illustrated reference work covers all aspects of world exploration from Antarctica to the North Pole; from the discovery of the New World to the age of space exploration. The companion features 750 articles, carefully selected by a distinguished group of editors and advisers to examine exploration from different angles: thematically, geographically, historically, and biographically. The Oxford Companion to World Exploration is available in a two volume print version and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.
Topics include:
· Biographies of influential explorers such as Ferdinand Magellan, Cheng Ho, Hernán Cortés, Ibn Battuta, Vitus Bering, and Christopher Columbus
· Navigational and marine sciences, navigational techniques, ancient and medieval navigation, ocean currents and winds, longitude and aerial surveys
· Exploration in ancient cultures including Egypt, Persia, Greece, Byzantium, China, Polynesia, and Rome.
Each entry is signed by a leading scholar in the field and contains a further reading bibliography and is cross-referenced to other useful articles.
The more than 700 well-organized entries are written in a straightforward and understandable style high-quality reproductions include maps and paintings from the past, as well as excellent modern colour-coded maps delineating dates and routes of key voyages.
