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The explorer's eye, first-hand accounts of adventure and exploration, edited by Fergus Fleming & Annabel Merullo ; introduction by Michael Palin ; designed by David Rowley

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The explorer's eye, first-hand accounts of adventure and exploration, edited by Fergus Fleming & Annabel Merullo ; introduction by Michael Palin ; designed by David Rowley
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
portraitsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The explorer's eye
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
62153652
Responsibility statement
edited by Fergus Fleming & Annabel Merullo ; introduction by Michael Palin ; designed by David Rowley
Sub title
first-hand accounts of adventure and exploration
Table Of Contents
To the great barrier reef and beyond / Joseph Banks -- Epic voyages to the South Seas / James Cook -- Passage to Tahiti / Louis-Antoine De Bougainville -- Botanical studies in South America / Alexander von Humboldt -- Into the wilderness of North America / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark -- Voyage to the Niger / Mungo Park -- Saharan experiences / George Lyon -- The quest for the North West Passage / John Franklin -- The slave trail to Chad / Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, & Walter Oudney -- Finding the fabled city of Timbuctoo / René Caillié -- Icebound in the Arctic / John Ross -- The lost cities of Central America / John Stephens -- The voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin -- First landing on the Antarctic continent / Julies-Sébastian-César Dumont D'Urville -- Stranded in search of the Pole / Elisha Kent Kane -- In Africa and the Orient / Richard Burton -- Mapping Australia / Charles Sturt -- The source of the Nile / John Hanning Speke -- A Victorian in Africa / Sam Baker -- The conquest of the Matterhorn / Edward Whymper -- Marooned off Greenland / Carl Koldewey & Paul Hegemann -- Through the African interior / David Livingstone -- Britain's attempt at the North Pole / George Nares -- Congo journey / Henry Morton Stanley --An Englishwoman abroad / Isabella Bird -- Farthest North / Fridtjof Nansen -- Tales from Tibet / Francis Younghusband -- Adventures in Central Asia / Sven Hedin --A voyage in the Artctic Sea / Duke of Abruzzi -- Nearest the Pole / Robert Edwin Peary -- The great Arctic fraud / Frederick Cook -- The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham -- First to the South Pole / Roald Amundsen -- Tragedy in the Antarctic / Robert Falcon Scott -- A solitary march in Antarctica / Douglas Mawson -- Quest for survival in Antarctica / Ernest Shackleton -- Mystery on Everest / George Mallory -- Zeppelins on top of the world / Umberto Nobile -- Alone on the Greenland ice cap / August Courtauld -- Into the stratosphere / Auguste Piccard -- Adventures in Brazil / Peter Fleming -- Trekking in Arabia / Freya Stark -- Exploring the deep / William Beebe -- By plane to the Poles / Richard Byrd -- Kon-Tiki's Pacific voyage / Thor Heyerdahl -- Travels in Southern Arabia / Wilfred Thesiger -- The summit of Annapurna / Maurice Herzog -- The conquest of Everest / Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay -- First crossing of Antarctica / Vivian Fuchs -- Underwater discoveries / Jacques Cousteau -- On foot across the Polar pack / Wally Herbert -- Footsteps on the moon / Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins -- The trans-global expedition / Ranulph Fiennes -- Around the world by balloon / Bertrand Piccard
Target audience
adult
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