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Jeannette Mirsky has here drawn from Sir Aurel Stein's books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival materials to produce a definitive biography of this archaeological explorer, geographer, historical topographer, and linguist.
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Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes towards world geography from the end of 19th century exploration to the dawn of the Cold War. The work discusses the study of geography and its place in culture and politics
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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. This title traces... Læs mere
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Twenty historical journeys, routes and adventures followed through the maps that made them.
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Short, incisive contributions by a wide range of expert scholars offer both a spine of chronological overviews, and a diverse spectrum of up-to-date insights into areas of key interest to historians today.
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Verifiable, history-changing revelations using intensive research & numerous photographs.
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An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal is a ground-breaking reassessment of research on ancient Mesopotamian flora.
Tag med Bent Nielsen, når han følger i sporene på Knud Rasmussen, der i 1924 krydsede Beringstrædet for at besøge yupik-befolkningen i Rusland. Gennem... Læs mere
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First hand accounts from Lieutenant James Cook, Joseph Banks, Sydney Parkinson, and James Magra.
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A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir
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This exploration classic was the first arctic bestseller and it is gripping narrative spawned the arctic expeditions that followed and a whole new genre of writing in the golden age of exploration. Includes the original photographs.