Book of Marvels An Explorer's Miscellany

Name: Book of Marvels An Explorer's Miscellany
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ISBN: 9781426204098

ISBN-10: 1426204094

ISBN-13: 9781426204098

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark Collins Jenkins

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In centuries past, undertaking a journey meant a voyage into the unknown, traveling for months or years into unexplored areas on the map where cartographers could only speculate "There be dragons." And those fortunate adventurers who made it home again always had fantastical tales to tell--even if sometimes they stretched the truth up to and beyond the breaking point. This eclectic history of exploration sweeps from antiquity to the 1800s, encompassing ages when new marvels might be waiting over the next hill or a new world just over the horizon. Among others, we meet Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian whose extravagant accounts of distant Cathay were mainly true; Sir John Mandeville,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 4/28/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.30" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English