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Exploration
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2014
95 kr
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We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as …
Exploration
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2014
95 kr
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We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as …
Fallen Giants
A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
Av Maurice Isserman, Stewart A. Weaver
Häftad, 2010
1253 kr
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The story of the world’s highest peaks and the remarkable people who have sought to climb themThe first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also …
Hammonds
A Marriage in History
Inbunden, 1997
967 kr
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Here for the first time is the story of one of history's great scholarly and marital collaborations. J. L. and Barbara Hammond were among the most innovative and influential historians of the twentieth century. Between 1911 and 1934, they wrote eight books together that amount, in effect, to the …
Exploration
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2015
114 kr
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For as long as there have been civilizations, there has been the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other civilizations or in search of novelty. Exploration: A Very Short Introduction surveys this quintessential human impulse, tracing it from pre-history to the present, from east …
