Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration - Hardcover

DK Publishing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0756667372 ISBN 13: 9780756667375

Publisher: DK, 2010

Synopsis

From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind's knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.

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Review:

"This book is addictive. Once you start looking at the pictures and reading the text, it is hard to put it down. Armchair explorers and libraries with exploration collections should purchase." -- Library Journal (STARRED Review), November 2010

About this edition

• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0756667372
• ISBN 13: 9780756667375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360