Inhoud

Non-fictie

Taal

Engels

Meer informatie

Versie

Revised edition

Uitgever

Robinson, London

Verschenen

2010

ISBN

9781849013116

184901311X

Kenmerken

487 pagina's

Aantekening

Met literatuuropgave

with a foreword by Wilfred Thesiger

Oorspronkelijke uitgave: The Robinson book of exploration. - London : Robinson, 1993

Bevat: Siberia and Alaska: Stranded on Bering Island / Georg Wilhelm Steller ; The walk to Moscow / John Dundas Cochrane -- Central and South Asia: Alarms amongst the Uzbeks / Alexander Burnes ; On the roof of the world / John Wood ; Lhasa beckons / Regis-Evariste Huc ; Exploring Angkhor / Henri Mouhot ; Over the Karakorams / Francis Edward Younghusband ; Trials in Tibet / Ekai Kawaguchi ; At the source of the Indus / Sven Hedin ; Everest by storm / Edmund Hillary -- Arabia: Escape from Riyadh / William Gifford Palgrave ; Desert days / Charles Montagu Doughty ; The point of return / Harry St. John Bridger Philby ; To the empty quarter for a drink of water / Wilfred Thesiger ; West Africa: Alone in Africa / Mungo Park ; The road to Kano / Hugh Clapperton ; Down the Niger / Richard Lander ; Arrival in Timbuktu / Heinrich Barth ; My Ogowé fans / Mary Kingsley -- East and Central Africa: Among the Sudanese / James Bruce ; Not the source of the Nile / Richard Francis Burton ; A glimpse of Lake Victoria / John Hanning Speke ; The reservoir of the Nile / Samuel White Baker ; Last days / David Livingstone ; Encounters on the Upper Congo / Henry Morton Stanley ; A novice at large / Joseph Thomson -- Australia: Landfall at Botany Bay / James Cook ; Escape from the Outback / Charles Sturt ; Death at Coopers Creek / William John Wills ; To see the sea / John McDouall Stuart ; North America: First crossing of America / Alexander Mackenzie ; Meeting the Shoshonee / Meriwether Lewis -- South America: Eating dirt in Venezuela / Alexander von Humboldt ; Iron rations in Amazonia / Henry Savage Landor ; The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham -- Arctic: Four years in the ice / John Ross ; Living off lichen and leather / John Franklin ; Adrift on an Arctic ice floe / Fridtjof Nansen ; The pole is mine / Robert Edwin Peary -- Antarctic: Farthest south / Ernest Henry Shackleton ; The pole at last / Roald Amundsen ; In extremis / Robert Falcon Scott.