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245 0 4 _aThe explorer's eye :
_bfirst-hand accounts of adventure and exploration /
_cedited by Fergus Fleming & Annabel Merullo ; introduction by Michael Palin ; designed by David Rowley.
246 3 0 _aFirst-hand accounts of adventure and exploration
246 3 0 _a1st hand accounts of adventure and exploration
250 _a1st hardcover ed. in U.S.
260 _aWoodstock, NY :
_bOverlook Press,
_c2005.
300 _a264 p. :
_bill. (some col.), ports. ;
_c29 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263) and index.
505 0 _aTo the great barrier reef and beyond / Joseph Banks -- Epic voyages to the South Seas / James Cook -- Passage to Tahiti / Louis-Antoine De Bougainville -- Botanical studies in South America / Alexander von Humboldt -- Into the wilderness of North America / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark -- Voyage to the Niger / Mungo Park -- Saharan experiences / George Lyon -- The quest for the North West Passage / John Franklin -- The slave trail to Chad / Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, & Walter Oudney -- Finding the fabled city of Timbuctoo / Ren�e Cailli�e -- Icebound in the Arctic / John Ross -- The lost cities of Central America / John Stephens -- The voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin -- First landing on the Antarctic continent / Julies-S�ebastian-C�esar Dumont D'Urville -- Stranded in search of the Pole / Elisha Kent Kane -- In Africa and the Orient / Richard Burton -- Mapping Australia / Charles Sturt -- The source of the Nile / John Hanning Speke -- A Victorian in Africa / Sam Baker -- The conquest of the Matterhorn / Edward Whymper -- Marooned off Greenland / Carl Koldewey & Paul Hegemann -- Through the African interior / David Livingstone -- Britain's attempt at the North Pole / George Nares -- Congo journey / Henry Morton Stanley --
505 0 _aAn Englishwoman abroad / Isabella Bird -- Farthest North / Fridtjof Nansen -- Tales from Tibet / Francis Younghusband -- Adventures in Central Asia / Sven Hedin --A voyage in the Artctic Sea / Duke of Abruzzi -- Nearest the Pole / Robert Edwin Peary -- The great Arctic fraud / Frederick Cook -- The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham -- First to the South Pole / Roald Amundsen -- Tragedy in the Antarctic / Robert Falcon Scott -- A solitary march in Antarctica / Douglas Mawson -- Quest for survival in Antarctica / Ernest Shackleton -- Mystery on Everest / George Mallory -- Zeppelins on top of the world / Umberto Nobile -- Alone on the Greenland ice cap / August Courtauld -- Into the stratosphere / Auguste Piccard -- Adventures in Brazil / Peter Fleming -- Trekking in Arabia / Freya Stark -- Exploring the deep / William Beebe -- By plane to the Poles / Richard Byrd -- Kon-Tiki's Pacific voyage / Thor Heyerdahl -- Travels in Southern Arabia / Wilfred Thesiger -- The summit of Annapurna / Maurice Herzog -- The conquest of Everest / Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay -- First crossing of Antarctica / Vivian Fuchs -- Underwater discoveries / Jacques Cousteau -- On foot across the Polar pack / Wally Herbert -- Footsteps on the moon / Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins -- The trans-global expedition / Ranulph Fiennes -- Around the world by balloon / Bertrand Piccard.
650 0 _aVoyages and travels
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDiscoveries in geography
_xHistory.
650 0 _aExplorers
_xHistory.
700 1 _aFleming, Fergus,
_d1959-
700 1 _aMerullo, Annabel.
700 1 _aPalin, Michael.
700 1 _aRowley, David.
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