Pathfinders : a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Pathfinders : a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Pathfinders : a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
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Publisher
New York : W. W. Norton, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N910.922/9
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 428 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Stretching : the first trail-finders from gathering cultures to great empires -- 2. Reaching : exploring the oceans to about a thousand years ago -- 3. Stirring : landward explorations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- 4. Springing : the maritime turn of the Late Middle Ages and the penetr...
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Publisher
New York : W. W. Norton, 2006.
Edition
1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
Presenting the subject on a truly global scale, historian Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world. From the maritime expeditions connecting Queen Hatshepsut's Egypt to the exotic land of Punt in the second millennium BCE,...
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Pathfinders : a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N910.922/9
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74VKJORWZdbl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJORWZdbl
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ISBN
9780393062595
0393062597
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910.922
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991022142349702626
