Modern Explorers
Title | Modern Explorers PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2021-11-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0500777047 |
Stories of the thrills and hardships faced by modern expeditions that continue to enhance our understanding of the world around us, now in a compact edition. This book profiles forty modern explorers who have disproved the idea that there is nowhere left to discover. Some are experienced and celebrated worldwide, while others are just starting to make their mark. The Modern Explorers delves into challenging and extraordinary expeditions to the remotest parts of the world by explorers from the United States, Australia, China, France, and beyond. Nine thematic sections cover all terrains: Polar, Desert, Rainforest, Mountain, Ocean, River, Under Sea, Under Land, and Lost Worlds. Written mainly by the explorers themselves, these accounts provide unique insight into what it is like to join an expedition, from being dragged through the top of the rainforest canopy in an inflatable raft suspended from a balloon to pedaling a boat across the Pacific to standing on the edge of an erupting volcano.
Famous Modern Explorers
Title | Famous Modern Explorers PDF eBook |
Author | Bernadine Bailey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Explorers |
ISBN |
Biographies of thirteen explorers who have contributed to man's knowledge of the earth, space, plant, and animal life. Includes accounts of Robert Perry, Roald Amundsen, Richard Byrd, Thor Heyerdahl, and John Glenn.
The Great Explorers
Title | The Great Explorers PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0500774315 |
Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
They Lived to Tell the Tale
Title | They Lived to Tell the Tale PDF eBook |
Author | The Explorers Club |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1599216396 |
Living dangerously with the members of the world-renowned Explorers Club.
MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS.
Title | MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS. PDF eBook |
Author | Maurycy August Beniowski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1790 |
Genre | |
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Explorers' Sketchbooks
Title | Explorers' Sketchbooks PDF eBook |
Author | Kari Herbert |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-03-28 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781452158273 |
The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery.
Concubines and Courtesans
Title | Concubines and Courtesans PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Gordon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190622180 |
Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.