01551oam 2200325z- 450 991015745790332120230905114811.00-7502-8760-8(CKB)3710000000453426(BIP)050205041(VLeBooks)9780750287609(EXLCZ)99371000000045342620210505cuuuuuuuu -u- -engExplorersWayland1 online resource (33 p.)Epic0-7502-8759-4 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.Discoveries in geographyExplorersDiscoveries in geographyExplorers910.922Steele Philip1748316BOOK9910157457903321Explorers4182054UNINA