01722nam a22002297a 4500 5681 FISKH 20250113115554.0 250113b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780199118809 FISKH eng FISKH FISKH 910.9 Pipe, Jim Great explorers : Discovering the world / by Jim Pipe First published 2008 Oxford : Oxford University Press ; 2008. 128 pages : color illustrations , maps ; 28 cm . Just as the unknown regions of the world seized the imagination of the great explorers, so the exploits of those explorers continue to fascinate readers today. The book captures all the thrill of exploration; its fears, dangers and hardships; encounters with hostile landscapes and peoples, andthe excitement of progress. All areas of the globe are covered and the journeys of explorers both famous and not so famous: Florence Baker in Egypt and Sudan; Mary Kingsley in West Africa; Lewis and Clark across the US; Franklin and Leary at the North Pole and Amundsen and Scott at the South. Thebook is arranged by region, and chronologically within that region. It captures the spirit of each age and explains how explorers, through reaching lands unknown to them, encountered peoples supporting advanced civilizations of their own. The final chapter examines the legacy of a region'sexploration, by explaining its political, economic and other consequences, whether they be the settlement of a continent or the creation of lasting national myths, as in Scott's doomed mission to Antarctica. explorers non-fiction ddc BK 0 5681 5681 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 001 001 SNS 2025-01-13 0 PIP 910.9 FISSE01200 2025-01-13 11:55:51 2025-01-13 BK