HISTORY OF WORLD EXPLORATION - Royal Geographical Society.

Guild Publishing, 1991, hardcover, illustrated. index, 320 pages, 21.6 cms x 29 cms x 2.6 cms, condition: as new.

he Royal Geographical Society History of World Exploration is the most authoritative work on the subject: Compiled under the general editorial supervision of The Royal Geographical. Society and of the traveller, author and broadcaster John Keay. Written by a team of eleven authors, each an acknowledged expert. Contains specially commissioned maps showing all the principal exploration routes, many traced from first-hand accounts. Specially written `Chronologies' running throughout the book, listing key dates in the opening up of each continent. The text is`accompanied by a unique collection of photographs, paintings and engravings, many taken from The Royal Geographical Society's vast archives.