Marco Polo, Fernando Magalh(a)es, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhartová, Neil Armstrong – to jsou jen někteří z velkých cestovatelů všech dob. Kniha Sedmdesát velkých výprav, jež změnily svět líčí jejich příběhy a mnoho dalších, popisuje objevitelské cesty a prozrazuje, co k nim největší světové dobrodruhy nutilo.
Was gibt es in unserer Zeit noch Neues und Unbekanntes auf der Welt zu entdecken? Diese Frage beantwortet dieses Buch auf faszinierende Weise: Es feiert all die Entdecker, die mit Mut, Intelligenz, Beharrlichkeit, Neugier und Fantasie neue Wege gehen. Denn unzählige Berggipfel, der Großteil der Wüsten, der Polarregion und der Dschungel der Erde hat noch nie ein Mensch betreten. 39 Geschichten hoher erzählerischer Qualität ziehen den Leser in ihren Bann und rütteln zugleich auf: Sie bringen uns ins Bewusstsein, wie sehr unsere Umwelt unbeachtet und unbekannt, aber auch bedroht ist. Die Entdecker beschreiben eindringlich Lebenserfahrungen, die sie auf ihren Expeditionen gewonnen haben: Denn erst in schwierigen Situationen – extreme Hitze oder Kälte, Hunger, Durst, Lebensgefahr, Begegnung mit gefährlichen Tieren - lernt der Mensch, mit Angst und Druck umzugehen, Erfindungsgeist und nicht zuletzt Führungspersönlichkeit zu entwickeln. In acht Kapiteln – Polarregion, Wüste, Regenwald, Berge, Ozeane, Flüsse, Unterwasser/Höhlen, Verlorene Welten - deckt dieses großartige Buch die gesamte Bandbreite der großen Entdecker unserer Zeit und ihrer Expeditionen ab. 268 beeindruckende Fotos begleiten die Berichte der 39 Entdecker.
It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first time in paperback. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. Many of these explorers captured their journeys in vivid firsthand written accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that the reader can experience the explorers’ adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
Stories of the thrills and hardships faced by modern expeditions that continue to enhance our understanding of the world around us This book profiles thirty-nine modern explorers who have disproved the idea that there is nowhere left to discover and explore. Some are greatly experienced and are celebrated worldwide, while others are young or less well known and just starting to make their mark. Here are challenging and extraordinary expeditions to the remotest parts of the world by explorers from the United States, Australia, China, France, and beyond. Eight thematic sections cover all terrains: Polar, Desert, Rainforest, Mountain, Ocean, River, Under Sea, Under Land, and Lost Worlds. Written mainly by the explorers themselves, the accounts provide a unique insight into what it is actually like to join an expedition, from being dragged through the top of the rainforest canopy in an inflatable raft suspended from a balloon to pedaling a boat across the Pacific to standing on the edge of an erupting volcano. Their stories are supplemented with dramatic expedition photographs, many capturing the moment of discovery or danger.
A lively collection of the adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history. Ferdinand Magellan, Genghis Khan, Thor Heyerdahl, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travelers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages—from early trips through the great port city of Alexandria to the latest journeys into space. In antiquity, we follow Alexander the Great to the Indus and Hannibal across the Alps; in medieval times, we trek beside Genghis Khan and Ibn Battuta. The Renaissance eventually led to Columbus visiting the Americas and to the circumnavigation of the world. In the following centuries, global maps are filled in by Abel Tasman, Vitus Bering, and James Cook. Journeys specifically made for scientific discoveries, most famously by Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, begin. In modern times, the ends of the earth were reached—including both poles and the world’s highest mountain. Editor Robin Hanbury-Tenison leads an incredible team of fifty-two contributors, including Robert Ballard and Ranulph Fiennes, who relate firsthand experiences with the journeys and places they describe. The Great Journeys in History chronicles the stories of bold, early travelers who explored the unexplored and who set out into the unknown, bringing alive the romance and thrill of adventure.
