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Epic!: Explorers by Philip Steele is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Epic!: Explorers about?

Epic: Explorers focuses on 12 of the most incredible expeditions in history, from the ancient Egyptian voyage to the land of Punt around 1470 BCE to the Apollo mission to space in 1969; taking in Marco Polo's journey to China, the great 15th-century Chinese voyages, the Portuguese sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, the New World voyages, the circumnavigation of the globe, the mapping of the Pacific, the exploration of the American West, the exploration of Africa, the race to the South Pole and the descent into the Mariana Trench on the way. The book details the dates and location of each expedition, the people involved and the distances travelled. A timeline on every spread gives the key dates from each expedition, and what happened when. Additional background information to each expedition leader is also provided, including Hatshepsut, Marco Polo, Zheng He, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Captain James Cook, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Dr Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Kingsley, Robert Scott, Roald Amundsen, Jacques Picard, James Cameron, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Epic: Explorers also looks at the te

Author

Philip Steele

Publisher

Wayland (Publishers) Ltd

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780750287593

Subjects

History, Travel, Literary Fiction