Unrolling The Map The Story of Exploration by Leonard Outhwaite Hardcover Book
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Title: Unrolling The Map The Story of Exploration by Leonard Outhwaite Hardcover Book.
Author: Leonard Outhwaite.
Type: Non-Fiction.
Edition: First Edition 1935.
Publisher: Constable & Company London W.C.2
Year First Published: 1935.
Format: Hardcover Book, no dustjacket.
Printed By: Printed In The United States of America.
Page Count: 351 pages.
Width: 22cm
Height: 26cm
Thickness: 3.0cm
Info: Unrolling The Map, The Story of Exploration.
With Drawings of Ships by Gordon Grant and 56 specially devised Maps.
World exploration and famous explorers in one compendium, from teh early travellers to teh Phoenicians, Greeks and other nations to the more modern Portuguese, French, Spanish and English explorers, they all included in teh fascinatiing journey of discovery and exploration, The crusades, Marco Polo, Henry The Navigator, Diaz, Da Gama, Magellan, Cotes, Cabot, Hudson, Capt Cook, Scott & Shackleton and too many others to mention are all part of this insight into exploration.
Part One: The First Explorers / The Classic World.
The Early Empires.
Egyptian exploration - The Voyage to Punt.
The Minoans
The Explorer Ulysses
The Phoenicians
Growth of the Classic World / Greece.
The Ancients and the Monsoons
The Ancients and the Islands
Part Two: The Death and Rebirth of Adventure / The Middle Ages.
The Northern Hordes
The Norse Adventurers
The Crusades
The Arabian Geographers
Monks and Missionaries in Asia
Marco Polo
After Polo
Part Three: The Great Age of Adventure / The Explorers
Portugal
Spain
England
France
Part Four: North America with Canada and The United States
Part Five: South America
Part Six: Asia
The Advance on Asia
The March Across Siberia and Vitus Bering
The Rim of Asia
Inner Asia with Tibet and Arabia
Part Seven: The Pacific and Australia.
Part Eight: Africa
Part Nine: The Arctic and the The Antarctic
Part Ten: Conclusion
Condition: Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages, some minor separation of pages at front papers.
The cover and spine is somewhat faded and the front cover is blistered, however the internal pages are clear and clean.
Minimal fading of pages, no foxing.
Price: R 295.00 Inc Vat.
