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The Great Explorers (edición 2010)

por Robin Hanbury-Tenison

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Presents biographies of forty explorers that reveal their lives, motives, and passions while discovering different parts of the world.

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Título:	The Great Explorers
Autores:	Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Información:	Thames & Hudson (2010), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 304 pages
Colecciones:	Tu biblioteca, History, Science & Nature
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A good compendium, if slightly unbalanced; the editor's good friend gets a longer space and more pictures at the end of the book than rather a lot of the other explorers found in the pages of this tome, and there's a bizarre dearth of female explorers represented. No Mary Kingsley, for instance? (

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soylentgreen23 | Nov 6, 2016 |

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 ocean journeys of five hundred years ago. (

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