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The Oxford Book of Exploration
The Oxford Book of Exploration

The Oxford Book of Exploration

著者: 
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
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  • Selected by the man whom the Sunday Timescalled 'the greatest explorer of the past twenty years', a comprehensive and enthralling anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages
  • Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker, who has contributed to numerous newspapers, mazagines, and TV programmes and has a high public profile (he organized the 130,000-strong Countryside Rally in 1997 and the 300,000-strong Countryside March in 1998)

      
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, described by the Sunday Times as the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences.
     
Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as

目次: 

Introduction
I Asia
II Africa
III North America
IV Central and South America
V The Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand
VI The Arctic
VII The Antarctic
VIII Above and Below
Bibliography
Source acknowledgements
Index

 . . . fascinating anthology . . . this goldmine of a book can be dipped into on any page. - Brian Maye, Irish Times
   

riveting reading - The Journal
    

The editor's confident grasp of his subject shines through in this truly entertaining anthology. - Literary Review
   

[An] enthralling archive. - The Times Summer Reading
     

boasting a glorious cover this book offers thrills galore - The Independent
   

Without doubt, this is still the best compendium of pioneer travellers' tales for any explorer's rucksack - and is likely to remain so for a long time to come. - TLS

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ISBN : 9780199583201

著者: 
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
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592 ページ
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Paperback
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130 x 195 mm
刊行日
2010年03月
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Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
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The Oxford Book of Exploration

The Oxford Book of Exploration

The Oxford Book of Exploration