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Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.

Pathfinders : a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, 2007. - xvii, 428 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Stretching : the first trail finders from gathering cultures to great empires -- 2. Reaching : exploring the oceans to about a thousand years ago -- 3. Stirring : landward explorations in late antiquity and the middle ages -- 4. Springing : the maritime turn of the late Middle Ages and the penetration of the Atlantic -- 5. Vaulting : the great leap forward of the 1490s -- 6. Girdling : connecting global routes, c.1500-c.1620 -- 7. Connecting : global reconvergence, c.1620-c.1740 -- 8. Deepening : enhancing the world-picture, c.1740s-c.1840s -- 9. Globalizing : the narrowing horizon, c.1850-c.2000.

This book is about encounters between cultures and the outreach of ambitions, imaginations, efforts, and innovations that made them possible.

ISBN: 9780393330915 0393330915 0393062597 9780393062595

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Discoveries in geography.
Explorers--History.
Discoveries in geography.
Explorers.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: G80 / .F37 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 910.92/2