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What is The Great Explorers : Forty of the Greatest Men and Women Who Changed Our Perception of the World about?
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How do they survive at the limits of human endurance? Who are the great pioneers of land, sea and space? Where next? This book charts the great expeditions of forty of the worlds most intrepid explorers, from da Gama to Gagarin. Gertrude Bell plotted the desert sands, politics and poetry of Arabia; Francis Garnier was driven almost insane on the banks of t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robin Hanbury-Tenison; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780500774304
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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