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Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
Alexander Maitland
Biography: science, technology & medicine, General & world history, History: earliest times to present day, Geographical discovery & exploration
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- Paperback Jan 30, 2024 | 9781474606295 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Nov 8, 2022 | 9781474606288 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Apr 11, 2023 | 9781474606271 | RRP $65.00 Buy Now
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- Paperback Jan 30, 2024 | 9781474606295 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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A one-volume history of exploration told through the stories of the Royal Geographical Society's remarkable gold-medal winners
Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised their achievements by awarding its prestigious gold medals to those who have contributed most to our knowledge of the world.
Taking us on a journey across mountains and deserts, oceans and seas, Exploring the World tells the stories of more than eighty of these extraordinary men and women. Some, such as David Livingstone, Scott of the Antarctic and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, are well known; whilst others, such as William Chandless and Ney Elias, are today less familiar. Some dreamed of being the first to sight a lake or a river; others sighted some of the world's greatest natural features by chance. Some were naturalists, anthropologists or mountaineers; others went in search of explorers who had vanished without trace, or had been shipwrecked or marooned.
Filled with epic tales of endurance and perseverance, Exploring the World celebrates a group of exceptional individuals possessed of indomitable courage, boundless determination and adventurous spirit. It portrays a variety of fascinating lives driven by curiosity, wanderlust and the pursuit of knowledge - and, in doing so, provides a unique overview of two centuries of exploration.
Praise for Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
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Masterly - The Times on WILFRED THESIGER
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A model biography of the explorer . . . Maitland has separated reality from legend . . . Meticulous research is illuminated by Maitland's evocations of Thesiger's affinity with a world characterised by desert romance - Sunday Telegraph on WILFRED THESIGER
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A worthy testament to an exceptional life - Independent on Sunday on WILFRED THESIGER
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This thorough biography will be fascinating to Thesiger aficionados - Mail on Sunday on WILFRED THESIGER
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Maitland has done justice to an extraordinary subject - Scotsman on WILFRED THESIGER
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Thesiger was compared to the greatest travellers of the Victorian age . . . Maitland captures that strange attractiveness, his undoubted love and understanding of a now-vanished world - Financial Times on WILFRED THESIGER
Alexander Maitland
Alexander Maitland is the author of Speke, A Tower in a Wall: Conversations with Dame Freya Stark, and a biography of Robert and Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, among other books. He worked with Freya Stark on Rivers of Time, a book of her photographs, and with Wilfred Thesiger on My Kenya Days, The Danakil Diary, Among the Mountains and A Vanished World. He edited Thesiger's anthology, My Life and Travels, compiled and wrote Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures, and wrote the authorised biography, Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer. In 2019, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society.
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