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This is the story of the earliest adventurous men, the first explorers.

This survey uses succinct accounts of the most epic journeys in the premodern world as lenses through which to examine the development of early travel, trade and cultural interchange between China, central Asia, India and southeast Asia, while also discussing themes such as the growth of empires and the spread of world religions.

Provides a chronological overview of exploration since the late nineteenth century, detailing the successful and failed expeditions that traveled the globe across terrains including ice, peaks, deserts, jungles, seas, and underworlds.

This pictorial fosters the spirit of exploration and travel. It's about appreciation and seeking out adventure in all travel experiences, whether in the remote regions of Russia or the chaotic streets of Shanghai--it's a state of mind as much as a destination. This book is a reminder to even the most seasoned adventurers; there's a lifetime of discoveries yet to uncover.

Discusses exploring expeditions of the fifteenth century.

An illustrated celebration of the mapmakers and mythmakers from the European age of exploration features dozens of maps, paintings, and engravings detailing the European vision of lands beyond the horizon.

In the late eighteenth century, a new subject emerged that was one of the earliest forms of historical geography. It was called ancient geography or classical geography. Geographers, historians and classicists all contributed to its rise, as it flourished in both Britain and America. Yet in the 1920s, as geography took a different turn, the subject began to decline. As a result the story has been omitted from more recent histories of geography and...

Guide to 53 expeditions from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Information on each expedition includes maps, photographs, texts and quotes from the explorer's journey diaries.

History of US participation in explorations of the late 18th and 19th Centuries, exploring Japan, Pacific Islands, the polar regions, etc.