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Author:
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
Title:
Pathfinders : a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Publisher:
W. W. Norton,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xvii, 428 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Discoveries (in geography)
Explorers--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Stretching : the first trail finders from gathering cultures to great empires -- 2. Reaching : exploring the oceans to about a thousand years ago -- 3. Stirring : landward explorations in late antiquity and the middle ages -- 4. Springing : the maritime turn of the late Middle Ages and the penetration of the Atlantic -- 5. Vaulting : the great leap forward of the 1490s -- 6. Girdling : connecting global routes, c.1500-c.1620 -- 7. Connecting : global reconvergence, c.1620-c.1740 -- 8. Deepening : enhancing the world-picture, c.1740s-c.1840s -- 9. Globalizing : the narrowing horizon, c.1850-c.2000.
ISBN:
0393330915 (pbk.)
9780393330915 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)173846783
Locations:
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

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