Author : National Geographic Society
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 9780792276166
Celebrates the achievements of National Geographic's most notable pioneers including John Glenn, Jane Goodall, and Jacque Cousteau, highlighting such sections as polar exploration, flight and space, and archaeology.
Author : Karen Farrington
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904668091
When Sir Edmund Hillary made his famous comment about climbing Mount Everest ‘because it was there’, he summed up the raison d’être behind every explorer’s drive to leave safe boundaries and tackle the unknown. The thrill and honor of being the first to explore any geographical region outweighed the enormous risks for those with a special brand of courage and imagination. Adventurers from Strabo, the Roman explorer in the Mediterranean, to Marco Polo in China, David Livingstone in Central Africa and Robert Falcon Scott in the Antarctic all shared the common traits of bravery, valor and perseverance in their endeavors to make known the unknown. They became the envy of others and won a place in history, their tales of adventure and hardship at once fascinating, fulfilling, and strangely perplexing. Historical Atlas of Expeditions brings this pioneer breed of men, and women, to life in thrilling detail.
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816042487
A study of the age of exploration includes short biographies of explorers and their accomplishments, and profiles of cultures such as the Japanese and Inca, and their response to foreign invaders.
Author : Karen Farrington
Publisher : Mercury Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781904668145
This book investigates the background of the Bible, not only re-telling the classic stories but looking at the latest archeological evidence to provide a thoroughly up-to-date account.
Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520252585
PRAISE FOR DEREK HAYES'S PREVIOUS ATLASES: "A beautifully executed achievement."--Bloomsbury Review "The kind of volume that invites repeated viewings."--Seattle Times "A sure winner. . . . It's hard to imagine anyone who could resist getting happily lost on these glorious roads into our past."--Toronto Star "Derek Hayes works his way from the discovery and settlement of North America to the ever-evolving maps recording America's westward push and onward to the early maps of the automobile age."--William Grimes, New York Times "The maps show everything from how explorers conceived of the continent circa 1500 to the spread of the interstate highway system in the 1950s."--Business Week
Author : John Amadeus Wolter
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Lavishly illustrated with 196 rare and historical maps it recounts tales of atlas makers from pre-Gutenberg to electronic atlas.
Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926706597
First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9780760719732
Author : Walter Goffart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226300722
Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historical Atlases traces how these collections of "maps for history"—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, Walter Goffart discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. He focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, "modern" past. Goffart concludes the book with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870. Historical Atlases will immediately take its place as the single most important reference on its subject. Historians of cartography, medievalists, and anyone seriously interested in the role of maps in portraying history will find it invaluable.
Author : John Haywood
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Historical geography
ISBN : 9780760732045
