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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157457903321

Autore

Steele Philip

Titolo

Explorers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wayland

ISBN

0-7502-8760-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (33 p.)

Collana

Epic

Disciplina

910.922

Soggetti

Discoveries in geography

Explorers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This title 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.