BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany

BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
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Title: BOOK OF MARVELS: An Explorer's Miscellany
Author(s): JENKINS, Mark
ISBN: 9781426204098
Category: Exploration & Adventure
New / Used: New
Book Type: Medium Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 2009
Published By: National Geographic
Pages: 302
Size (mm): 175 w x 235 h x 28 d

Condition

New with only light shelf wear on dust jacket.

About

In centuries past, undertaking a journey meant a voyage into the unknown, traveling for months or years into unexplored areas on the map where cartographers could only speculate.

This eclectic history of exploration sweeps from antiquity to the 1800s, encompassing ages when new marvels might be waiting over the next hill or a new world just over the horizon. Among others, we meet Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian whose extravagant accounts of distant Cathay were mainly true; Sir John Mandeville, less intrepid explorer than shameless exaggerator; and John Wesley Powell, braving Colorado River rapids on the first trip through the Grand Canyon.

Illustrated throughout with colour fine line drawings, decorated end papers.

Remarks

Scarce locally

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