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Resourceful traveler: November 16, 2008
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More from Books"Atlas of Exploration" (Oxford, $50)
This revised second edition is a lavishly illustrated history of the great explorations of the world. It features more than 100 specially produced maps as well as more than 300 photographs, illustrations and historical maps. The text covers a massive amount of information in fewer than 300 pages, from the voyages of the Phoenicians in the North Atlantic to Charles Darwin's seminal voyage to the Galapagos Islands. It also discusses the first civilizations, great leaders such as Alexander the Great, important trade routes such as the Silk Road, the voyages of the Vikings, the journeys of Marco Polo, the "discovery" of Africa, the exploration of the Nile, Columbus and the New World, the search for El Dorado, missionaries and traders in the New World, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. The final chapter discusses going to the moon and concludes with the launch of the first Pluto spacecraft in early 2006. The appendix contains useful brief biographies of explorers, geographers and cartographers discussed in the text. With a foreword by John Hemming, former director and secretary of the Royal Geographic Society.
— The Chicago Tribune
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