Pathfinders A Global History of Exploration

Name: Pathfinders A Global History of Exploration
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ISBN: 9780393062595

ISBN-10: 0393062597

ISBN-13: 9780393062595

Edition: 2006

Authors: Felipe Fernï¿½ndez-Armesto

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High adventure and grand history from a master of the craft in a beautifully illustrated volume. With characteristic flair, Felipe Fernández-Armesto gives us an entertaining and insightful history of world exploration. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, lay down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world. From the maritime expeditions connecting Queen Hatshepsut's Egypt to the exotic land of Punt in the second millennium BCE, through the merchants and missionaries of the ancient Silk Roads and the great Iberian explorers of the fifteenth century,…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 428
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Felipe Fernï¿½ndez-Armesto, the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration and Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, and London.

List of Illustrations	p. xiii
List of Plates	p. xv
List of Maps	p. xvi
Stretching: The First Trail Finders from Gathering Cultures to Great Empires	p. 1
Reaching: Exploring the Oceans to About a Thousand Years Ago	p. 41
Stirring: Landward Explorations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages	p. 71
Springing: The Maritime Turn of the Late Middle Ages and the Penetration of the Atlantic	p. 109
Vaulting: The Great Leap Forward of the 1490s	p. 153
Girdling: Connecting Global Routes, c. 1500-c. 1620	p. 193
Connecting: Global Reconvergence, c. 1620-c. 1740	p. 245
Deepening: Enhancing the World-Picture, c. 1740s-c. 1840s	p. 289
Globalizing: The Narrowing Horizon, c. 1850-c. 2000	p. 349
Notes	p. 401
Picture Acknowledgements	p. 418
Index	p. 419
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