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A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

$ 35.00
xxvii, 554 pp. Color frontispiece and plates (8 total, including one fold-out), 16 black-and-white plates, illustrations throughout text. A fascinating account of the world's famous explorers, including the early travelers in ancient times, the discovery of the New World, explorations in Africa and Australia, and the expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Many of the explorers tell part of their story in their own words. Amply illustrated with reproductions of early maps and charts, as well as old woodcuts, drawings, paintings, and miniatures. Emphasis is placed on the explorers' "record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down."