Download or read book Great British Explorers written by and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1985 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Explorers written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. 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 oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Download or read book Explorers written by and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1985 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the lives and achievements of fifteen famous British explorers.
Download or read book Great Explorers written by Roderic Owen and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the harrowing adventures of over forty courageous pioneers such as Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, David Livingston, Robert Scott, and Neil Armstrong.
Download or read book Captain James Cook written by Richard Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly illustrated series exhibits fantastic biographical accounts ofthe "great names" of all time. Full color.
Download or read book Dr Livingstone I Presume written by David Livingstone and published by Eldorado Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of Dr. Livingstone's Travels in Africa in search of the Source of the Nile. The Zambesi and its Tributaries were explored by this intrepid Adventurer.
Download or read book Explorers Discoverers written by Peggy Saari and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 4-vol. source combines the benefits of an encyclopedia, a textbook and an almanac to help students and researchers understand all aspects of weather.
Download or read book Great British Journeys written by Nicholas Crane and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers. Nick presents eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to have explored and reported on the state of the nation. From Gerald of Wales who embarked on a seven week journey around the wild perimeter of Wales in March 1188, to HV Morton, the journalist and travel writer who crossed the length and breadth of England by car in the 1920s. Others include Celia Fiennes who started her many journeys around Britain on horseback in the late 1600s at the age of 20, Tudor antiquarian John Leland, Daniel Defoe, William Cobbett, Thomas Pennant, and William Gilpin, who travelled through the north of England by boat in 1770.
Download or read book Robert F Scott written by John Riddle and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly illustrated series exhibits fantastic biographical accounts ofthe "great names" of all time. Full color.
Download or read book Roald Amundsen written by Roald Amundsen and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography.
Download or read book The Most Brilliant Boldly Going Book of Exploration Ever by the Brainwaves written by Lisa Swerling and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pack up your rucksack and go on some of history's most exciting journeys of discovery Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief-makers who are about to take your child on an incredible journey to meet a host of famous explorers and share their incredible discoveries! They'll find out why the Ancient Phoenicians were bewildered by Britain, laugh at the great big fibs told by 'explorer' Sir John Mandeville, and travel along the River of Disappointment! Packed with amazing explorer facts to learn about - timelines, and things to find - your child will take a journey just about everywhere, and discover everything they ever wanted to know about the whole world and beyond!
Download or read book Modern Explorers written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the thrills and hardships faced by modern expeditions that continue to enhance our understanding of the world around us, now in a compact edition. This book profiles forty modern explorers who have disproved the idea that there is nowhere left to discover. Some are experienced and celebrated worldwide, while others are just starting to make their mark. The Modern Explorers delves into challenging and extraordinary expeditions to the remotest parts of the world by explorers from the United States, Australia, China, France, and beyond. Nine thematic sections cover all terrains: Polar, Desert, Rainforest, Mountain, Ocean, River, Under Sea, Under Land, and Lost Worlds. Written mainly by the explorers themselves, these accounts provide unique insight into what it is like to join an expedition, from being dragged through the top of the rainforest canopy in an inflatable raft suspended from a balloon to pedaling a boat across the Pacific to standing on the edge of an erupting volcano.
Download or read book Into Tibet the Early British Explorers written by George Woodcock and published by . This book was released on with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explorers written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish visual survey of the world's greatest explorers, revealing who they were, where they went, and how their expeditions shaped the course of human history
Download or read book Sir Ernest Shackleton written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes Shackleton's quotes about his expeditions *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems to be no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton." - Sir Raymond Priestley Exploration of Earth's wilderness areas became an international obsession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as economically advantaged nations, in particular European powers and the United States were well equipped to mount exhaustive expeditions. From previously inaccessible forests and jungle country to the world's great mountain ranges, adventurers sought out the greatest extremes of climate and terrain in a race to plant the first flag where humanity struggled to survive. An earlier wave of explorers led to the opening of the New World, and early polar expeditions saw ancient ships of various nations sail along the coastlines of Greenland and within reach of the Arctic and Antarctic continents. Many 19th century figures approached the polar region with an eye to traversing it. Most notable among them was British explorer Sir James Clark Ross, who took the Erebus and the HMS Terror to the southernmost coastlines of the planet. Ross is probably the first explorer to realize that Antarctica was a continent and not just a large chain of islands, and he discovered the section of the shelf that was to become the Victoria Barrier. Asian nations also took part in Antarctic exploration when Nobu Shirase of Japan mounted his 1911 expedition, while Sir Edgeworth David, a Welsh-Australian, was the first person to successfully reach the summit of Mt. Erebus. Richard Evelyn Byrd is believed to be the first pilot to cross the Antarctic continent, and even well past the era of great polar expeditions, British figures such as Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, made several expeditions to the South Pole. The era was universally dubbed the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, but its greatest story did not stem from the actual achievement of reaching the pole. It was, rather, one of the most profound and heroic rescues ever witnessed that affirmed the empire's greatness, embodied by the inspired insistence and exemplary conduct of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. This unlikely figure entered the rich man's world of polar exploration through an astonishing persistence and succeeded through the same quality. In fact, it was with Scott that Shackleton participated in his first polar expedition. Shackleton's place in history is not the one he set out to make, but his extraordinary deeds have made his contributions to early exploration of Antarctica indelible. Despite the victor's wreath eventually going to another, Shackleton's name is essential to any discussion of Antarctic exploration, based on personal heroism more than logistical triumphs. Sir Ernest Shackleton: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary British Explorer and His Expeditions to Antarctica chronicles one of the most famous explorers of the 20th century. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Ernest Shackleton like never before.
Download or read book Captain John Franklin and Sir Ernest Shackleton written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Most anyone who has received a basic education in world history knows the story of how "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Most also know that Christopher Columbus made first contact with the Americas while searching for a water route to Asia. However, far fewer people remember that the search for such a route continued for centuries after Columbus' death. After the discovery of the Americas, several European countries were interested in finding the route, and nations from France to Spain sent out explorers searching for the mysterious route. While these voyages did not reveal the hoped for route, they did result in large parts of both North and South America being mapped, and as more of the new land mass was determined, the parameters of the search for such a route were narrowed. By the 18th century, explorers began to seek such a route to the north, looking for the legendary Northwest Passage. Eventually, some countries lost interest, but England remained determined, and the masters of the waves continued to send ship after ship and crew after crew across the Atlantic. By the early 19th century, the search was taking expeditions to the Arctic, and each time a team returned to England telling stories of how it was stymied by ice or bad weather, another team confidently went out, certain that it would be the one to make it through. This ultimately led to the voyage of Captain John Franklin, who left Britain in 1845 for the Arctic in the hopes of completing mapping the Northwest Passage. Instead of returning with spices and silks, Franklin and his men disappeared, leaving behind them a mystery that plagued the English conscience for decades. Ironically, the ill-fated trip only became more legendary when its mystery was solved than it was when it remained a curiosity. It was a tale of ice and cold, starvation and desperation, and a tragically fatal one. Exploration of Earth's wilderness areas became an international obsession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as economically advantaged nations, in particular European powers and the United States were well equipped to mount exhaustive expeditions. From previously inaccessible forests and jungle country to the world's great mountain ranges, adventurers sought out the greatest extremes of climate and terrain in a race to plant the first flag where humanity struggled to survive. Locating the North Pole was, in a navigational sense, far more problematic than its counterpart in the south. The North Pole is situated on a moving foundation of ice, constantly shifting its position. To plant a flag there is useless, as it is prone to drift great distances in an unpredictable direction. However, reaching the South Pole presented the most torturous climatic obstacle on the planet, and with the size of the ice continent in the early years of the century, the distance from a ship in harbor to the center required a vast trek carrying minimal rations. Britain made its first and finest statement for actually reaching the South Pole in the first years of the 20th century. The dangers of the Antarctic, including scurvy, dehydration, and hypothermia, were well known to all major explorers. They also understood that even the most incidental detail of an expedition going amiss could spell doom for all parties involved. The era was universally dubbed the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, but its greatest story did not stem from the actual achievement of reaching the pole. It was, rather, one of the most profound and heroic rescues ever witnessed that affirmed the empire's greatness, embodied by the inspired insistence and exemplary conduct of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. This unlikely figure entered the rich man's world of polar exploration through an astonishing persistence.
Download or read book Great British Adventurers written by Nicholas Storey and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with tales of 'derring-do' and keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of adversity, this new guide thrusts the country's well known, and lesser-known, adventurers of the centuries past and present into the limelight. The book introduces 26 male and female characters, whose achievements have contributed to society's progress and understanding since the 19th century. Read about feats from the likes of aviator Amy Johnson CBE and sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur. All pioneers in their field, from missionaries to pilots, their stories are an inspiration.
