false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214356187m/2123056.jpg 16862 4 <B>High adventure and grand history from a master of the craft in a beautifully illustrated volume.</B><BR><BR>With characteristic flair, Felipe Fernández-Armesto gives us an entertaining and insightful history of world exploration. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, lay 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, through the merchants and missionaries of the ancient Silk Roads and the great Iberian explorers of the fifteenth century, to the nineteenth-century explorations of the polar regions, interior Africa, North America, and the South Pacific, Fernández-Armesto spins a grand narrative full of character and story. Deftly embedding these explorations in the cultures, politics, and technologies of their times, he creates a history with unusual depth and breadth. Here is an intellectual adventure as rewarding as it is thrilling. 16 pages of color; 48 maps; 44 illustrations. 1381006 2006 Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration total:21|5:7|4:10|3:3|2:1|1:0| 21 86 63 7 16862 0393062597 9780393062595 17 6 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761331m/16862.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16862.Pathfinders_A_Global_History_of_Exploration 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:41:51 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:41:51 -0800 2009 Few scholars are as qualified as Felipe Fern¬_ndez-Armesto (Civilizations; Truth), a historian at Tufts, to write a history of exploration. He has written the book on the world as we came to know it. He insists that stories of exploration are really stories of explorers, and in Pathfinders, his sixt...

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