Pathfinders : a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2007Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xvii, 428 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393330915; 0393330915; 0393062597; 9780393062595Subject(s): Discoveries in geography | Explorers -- History | Discoveries in geography | ExplorersGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 910.92/2 LOC classification: G80 | .F37 2007Other classification: 910.922 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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