Название: Great Expeditions: 50 Journeys that changed our world
Автор: Levison Wood
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9780008222611
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Ernest Shackleton’s escape from Antarctica
Percy Fawcett: In search of the lost city of gold
Jim Corbett and the hunt for the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag
Amelia Earhart: The Trans-Atlantic heroine
René-August Caillié: The outsider who made it inside Timbuktu
Anti-whaling campaign, Greenpeace and the Rainbow Warrior
Marco Polo’s journey to the fabled Xanadu
Mary Kingsley: Travels in the heart of Africa
Descent to the Centre of the Earth
Norbert Casteret: Into the abyss at Pierre Saint-Martin
A Lone Voice in the Wilderness
John Muir: A thousand miles to save the wild places
Gertrude Bell and her journey to Ha’il
Francisco Pizarro: The raider who ended an empire
Alexandra David-Néel’s trek across the Himalayas
The first successful ascent of the north face of the Eiger
The quest to fly around the globe without fuel
Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world
Scientific Exploration in the Americas
Alexander von Humboldt, the father of geography
John Wesley Powell’s exploration down the Colorado river
Fridtjof Nansen’s crushing expedition in the Arctic
The first woman to circumnavigate the world
Molly, Daisy and Gracie’s 1,600 km walk following a rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia