The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present - Hardcover

Novaresio, Paolo

9781556704956: The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155670495X ISBN 13: 9781556704956

Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1996

Recounts the history of exploration from ancient times to the twentieth century, and describes the experiences of Balboa, Cortez, Marco Polo, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Robert Peary, and Roald Amundsen

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About the Author:

Paolo Novaresio graduated in contemporary history and for more than 20 years has been a full-time traveler. Recently he has concentrated his research in Kenya, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. He lives and works in Turin, Nairobi, and Johannesburg.

From Publishers Weekly:

The urge to explore surely is deeply rooted in the human psyche. In the opening pages of this magnificently illustrated tribute to the history of exploration, anthropologist and explorer Alberto Salza, speaking to Novaresio, a specialist in the methodology of exploration, links the exploratory urge to, in children, the need to "learn very quickly" all that the child requires "for survival," and, in adults, to the activity of play. From this theoretical base, Novaresio launches into a brisk but very wide-ranging historical survey of exploration, from the earliest migrations of Homo erectus through the Apollo moon missions and beyond. In large part, he centers his text around the exploits of famed explorers: Alexander the Great, Columbus, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Robert Peary, Edmund Hillary and many others make dramatic appearances here. The text is perforce sketchy in parts; the deep-sea missions of William Beebe and Auguste Piccard, for instance, are dispensed with in one paragraph and a few pictures. But the real draw to this book isn't the text but the 640 illustrations-a cornucopia of drawings, paintings, photos and maps, 400 in color, rhythmically integrated with the text and reproduced in strong lines and vibrant tones. This isn't the definitive history of exploration, but it may be the book about exploration that readers will enjoy exploring above all others.
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