Bibliograph

The great explorers, edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Type

Label

The great explorers, edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great explorers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

601098757

Responsibility statement

edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Table Of Contents

Searching beyond the horizon -- The oceans -- Christopher Columbus -- Vasco da Gama -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Louis-Antoine de Bougainville -- James Cook -- The land -- Hernando de Soto -- Lewis and Clark -- Thomas Baines -- Richard Burton -- Nain Singh -- Nikolai Przhevalsky -- Ney Elias -- Francis Younghusband -- Marc Aurel Stein -- Rivers -- Samuel de Champlain -- James Bruce -- Alexander Mackenzie -- Mungo Park -- John Hanning Speke -- David Livingstone -- Francis Garnier -- Henry Morton Stanley -- Polar ice -- Fridtjof Nansen -- Edward Wilson -- Roald Amundsen -- Wally Herbert -- Deserts -- Heinrich Barth -- Charles Sturt -- Gertrude Bell -- Harry St. John Philby -- Ralph Bagnold -- Wilfred Thesiger -- Life on earth -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Marianne North -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Frank Kingdon-Ward -- New Frontiers -- Gino Watkins -- Yuri Gagarin -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau -- Andrew James Eavis

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