The Royal Geographical Society history of world exploration / general editor John Keay.

• Introduction / John Hemming -- Early exploration / Mark Greengrass -- Asia / John Keay -- Africa / Dorothy Middleton -- North America / Selma Huxley Barkham -- Central and South America / John Ure -- The Pacific, Australia and New Zealand / David Mountfield -- The Arctic / Anita McConnell -- The Antarctic /Ann Savours -- Oceanography / Anita McConnell -- Exploration today / Nigel Winser.

• The most up-to-date and authoritative work on the subject world exploration. This book contains specially commissioned maps showing all the principal exploration routes, many traced from first-hand accounts. Chronologies listing key dates in the opening of each continent and the text is accompanied by unique collection of photographs, paintings and engravings. 

Ämnesord

Upptäcktshistoria  (sao)

Upptäcktsresor  (sao)

Upptäcktsresande  (sao)

Discoveries in geography.  (LCSH)

Explorers.  (LCSH)

Discoveries in geography.  (fast)

Explorers.  (fast)

Ontdekkingsreizen.  (gtt)

Découvertes géographiques.  (ram)

Explorateurs.  (ram)

Discoveries in geography  (LCSH)

Discoveries in geography  (LCSH)

Explorers  (LCSH)

Genre

Children's nonfiction. 

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Exploration

Klassifikation

910.4 (UDK)

910/.9 (DDC)

74.13 (bcl)

910.4

N:k (kssb/8 (machine generated))