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03471cam a2200409 i 4500 001 0C15A7382AD611DEA0647705A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20210729012405 008 780725s1978 ilua b 000 0deng 010 $a 78013656 020 $a 9780838902691 020 $a 0838902693 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BUF $d MUQ $d BTCTA $d OCLCG $d AU@ $d OCLCA $d IOT $d SILO 050 0 $a G525 $b .D64 082 14 $a B $a B 100 1 $a Downs, Robert B. $q (Robert Bingham), $d 1903-1991. 245 1 $a In search of new horizons : $b epic tales of travel and exploration / $c Robert B. Downs. 260 $a Chicago : $b American Library Association, $c 1978. 300 $a x, 290 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Bibliography: p. 287-290. 505 00 $t Travel in fact and fancy. $t The first sightseer: Herodotus' History of the Persian Wars, 464-447 B.C. -- $t Quest for Cathay: Marco Polo's travels, 1271-1295 -- $t Discoverer of continental America: Amerigo Vespucci's four voyages, 1497-1504 -- $t Circling the globe: Antonio Pigafetta's The first voyage around the world by Magellan, 1519-1521 -- $t Navigator and discoverer par excellence: Captain James Cook's journals, 1768 -- $t Terrestrial paradise: William Bartam's travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, 1773-1777 -- $t Pursuing the Niger: Mungo Park's travels in the interior districts of Africa, 1795-1797 -- $t Rediscovery of America: Alexander von Humboldt's personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the new continent, 1799-1804 -- $t Spanning a continent: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's History of the expedition, 1804-1806 -- $t Exploring the American frontier: Henry Schoolcraft's narrative journal of travels through the Northwest region of the United States, 1820 -- $t Untamed Indians: Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trial, 1846 -- $t Origin of species: Charles Darwin's The voyage of the beagle, 1831-1836 -- $t Iberian vagabond: George Borrow's The Bible in Spain, 1835-1840 -- $t View form the forecastle: Richard Henry Dana's Two years before the mast, 1840 -- $t Shrines of Islam: Richard Burton's personal narratives of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 1853 -- $t Orient meets Occident: Fukuzawa Yukichi's Autobiography, 1860 -- $t Breaker of stones: Henry M. Stanley's Through the dark continent, 1871-1877 -- $t Lone voyager: Joshua Slocum's Sailing alone around the world, 1896-1898 -- $t Farthest north: Robert E. Peary's The North Pole, 1908-1909 -- $t Intrepid Norsemen: Roald Amundsen's The South Pole, 1911 -- $t The river of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Through the Brazilian wilderness, 1913 -- $t Stone Age voyage: Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft, 1947 -- $t Eight thousand meters plus: Maurice Herzog's Annapurna, 1950 -- $t Top of the world: Sir John Hunt's The conquest of Everest, 1953 -- $t Travel in fact and fancy. 650 0 $a Adventure and adventurers. 650 0 $a Explorers. 650 6 $a Aventures et aventuriers. 650 6 $a Explorateurs. 941 $a 9 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214020732.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718041004.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926035653.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710083529.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160805043140.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l O3AX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20090806113132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0C15A7382AD611DEA0647705A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b IOTInitiate Another SILO Locator Search