كتاب
Explorers: the most exciting voyages of discovery, from the African expeditions to the lunar landing
| العنوان: | Explorers: the most exciting voyages of discovery, from the African expeditions to the lunar landing |
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| المؤلفون: | De Porti, Andrea, 1968- |
| بيانات النشر: | New York : Firefly Books, 2005. |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| وصف مادي: | 56 folded pages : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 29 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Explorers -- History -- 19th century., Explorers -- History -- 20th century., Discoveries in geography., Explorateurs -- Histoire -- 19e siècle., Explorateurs -- Histoire -- 20e siècle., Découvertes géographiques. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke and the search for the source of the Nile -- Ernest Doudart de Lagrée and Francis Garnier and the ruins of Angkor Wat -- David Livingstone and the "missionary road" -- Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs among oases and temples -- Henry Morton Stanley in "Darkest Africa" -- Timothy O'Sullivan recording the Wild West -- Challenger exploring the deep -- Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky, mapmaker to the Czar -- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, peaceful conqueror -- Teober Maler and the Mayan civilization -- John William Lindt in Australia and Oceania -- Vittorio Bottego in East Africa -- Fridtjof Nansen and Fram -- Vittorio Sella, mountaineering photographer -- Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie, peaceful colonist -- Isabella Bird Bishop in the Middle Kingdom -- Jean-Baptiste Marchand from the Congo to the White Nile -- Francis Younghusband and the "Great Game" -- Alfred Wegener and continental drift -- Robert Peary and Matthew Henson on the top of the world. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, pourquoi-pas? -- Sven Hedin on the Silk Road -- Roald Amundsen and the Northwest Passage -- Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole -- Robert Falcon Scott and Discovery -- The last journey of Robert Falcon Scott -- Katherine Routledge on Easter Island -- Gertrude Bell, queen without a crown -- Cândido Rondon and Theodore Roosevelt in the rain forest -- Ernest Shackleton and Endurance -- Ferdinand von Zeppelin and Hugo eckener, the age of the airship -- Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings -- Rosita Forbes and Ahmed Hassanein Bey at the Kufrah Oasis -- Alexandra David-Néel in the heart of Tibet -- André Citroën's Croisière Noire across Africa -- Charles Lindbergh in a single bound -- Albert H. MacCarthy and the icy giant -- Umberto Nobile and the red tent -- Aimone di Savola in the heart of the Karakorams -- La Croisière Jaune in the footsteps of Marco Polo -- Ardito Desio in the world's largest desert -- Freya Stark, an intrepid solitary. Théodore Monod, a life in the desert -- Hans Hass among the fish -- Maria Reiche and the enigma of Nazca -- Edmund Hillary and the world mother goddess -- Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki -- Challenging K2 -- Nautilus under the North Pole -- Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first man in space -- Neil Armstrong in the Sea of Tranquility -- Apollo 13 and the Moon. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm58830160 G200 .D46 2005x |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-55407-101-2 1-55407-101-1 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Translation of: Esploratori. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references: p. 54. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009759052.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781554071012 1554071011 |
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