Pathfinders A Global History of Exploration

Name: Pathfinders A Global History of Exploration
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ISBN: 9780393330915

ISBN-10: 0393330915

ISBN-13: 9780393330915

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Authors: Felipe Fernï¿½ndez-Armesto

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"A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."Candice Millard,New York Times Book Review Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the past five millennia, lay down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world. The Wall Street Journalcalls it "impressive...a huge story [told] with gusto and panache." To theWashington Post, "Pathfindersis propelled by an Argonaut of an author, indefatigable and daring. It's a wild…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.13" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.694
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


List of Plates


List of Maps


Stretching: The First Trail Finders from Gathering Cultures to Great Empires


Reaching: Exploring the Oceans to About a Thousand Years Ago


Stirring: Landward Explorations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages


Springing: The Maritime Turn of the Late Middle Ages and the Penetration of the Atlantic


Vaulting: The Great Leap Forward of the 1490s


Girdling: Connecting Global Routes, c.1500-c.1620


Connecting: Global Reconvergence, c.1620-c.1740


Deepening: Enhancing the World-Picture, c.1740s-c.1840s


Globalizing: The Narrowing Horizon, c.1850-c.2000


Notes


Picture Acknowledgements


Index