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Title Explorers and discoverers of the world / edited by Daniel B. Baker
Published Detroit : Gale Research, [1993]
©1993

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Description xli, 637 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Contents Delia Akeley -- Alfonso de Albuquerque -- Alexander the Great -- Diego de Almagro -- Pedro de Alvarado -- Roald Amundsen -- Carl Johan Andersson -- Antonio de Andrade -- Apollo -- Neil Armstrong -- William Henry Ashley -- Vladimir Vasilyevich Atlasov -- Francisco de Azevado -- Sir George Back -- William Baffin -- William Balfour Baikie -- Florence Baker -- Samuel White Baker -- Vasco Nunez de Balboa -- Sir Joseph Banks -- Pedro Joao Baptista -- Alexander Andreyevich Baranov -- Willem Barents -- Rabban Bar-Sauma -- Heinrich Barth -- Bob Bartlett -- Henry Walter Bates -- Jim Beckwourth -- Gertrude Bell -- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen -- Benjamin of Tudela -- Vitus Bering -- Louis-Gustave Binger -- Hiram Bingham -- Isabella Bird -- John Biscoe -- Gregory Blaxland -- Lady Anne Blunt -- Sir Wilfrid Scawen Blunt -- Sidi Mubarak Bombay -- Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville -- Daniel Boone -- Louis Antoine de Bougainville -- Louise Arner Boyd -- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza -- James Bruce -- Entienne Brule -- Jean Louis Burckhardt -- Robert O'Hara Burke -- Sir Richard Burton -- Robert Bylot -- Richard Evelyn Byrd -- John Byron -- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca -- John Cabot -- Sebastian Cabot -- Joao Cabral -- Pedro Alvares Cabral -- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo -- Alvise de Cadamosto -- Rene Caillie -- Verney Lovett Cameron -- Diogo Cao -- Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo -- Giovanni di Piano Carpini -- Philip Carteret -- Jacques Cartier -- Gaetano Casati -- Francis de la Porte, Comte de Castelnau -- Charles Chaille-Long -- Challenger -- Samuel de Champlain -- Richard Chancellor -- Chang Ch'ien -- Jean-Baptiste Charcot -- Evelyn Cheesman -- Cheng Ho -- James Chuma -- Hugh Clapperton -- William Clark -- John Colter -- Christopher Columbus -- Frederick Albert Cook -- James Cook -- Francisco Vazquez de Coronado -- Gaspar Corte-Real -- Miguel Corte-Real -- Hernan Cortes -- Jacques(-Yves) Cousteau -- Pero da Covilhao -- Jules Crevaux -- Samuel Adjai Crowther -- Allan Cunningham -- Vasco de Gama -- Luigi Maria D'Albertis -- William Dampier -- Charles Darwin -- Alexandra David-Neel -- John Davis -- George Washington De Long -- Ippolito Desideri -- Hernando de Soto -- Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev -- Bartolomeu Dias -- Charles Montagu Doughty -- Sir Francis Drake -- Paul Du Chaillu -- Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville -- Henri Duveyrier -- Gil Eannes -- Amelia Earhart -- Lincoln Ellsworth -- Emin Pasha -- Joseph-Antoine Raymond Bruni d'Entrecasteaux -- Erik (the Red) -- Leif Eriksson -- Estevanico -- Explorer -- Edward John Eyre -- Fa-Hsien -- Percy Fawcett -- Paul-Xavier Flatters -- Matthew Flinders -- John Forrest -- Fernand Foureau -- Luke Fox -- Sir John Franklin -- Simon Fraser -- John Charles Fremont -- Sir Martin Frobisher -- Sir Vivian Fuchs -- Yuri Gagarin -- Aelius Gallus -- Francis Garnier -- Sir Humphrey Gilbert -- Ernest Giles -- John Glenn -- Glomar Challenger -- Isabel Godin des Odonais -- James Augustus Grant -- Sir Augustus Gregory -- Medard Chouart des Groseilliers -- Johann Gruber -- Charles Francis Hall -- Hanno -- Samuel Hearne -- Sven Hedin -- Louis Hennepin -- Peince Henry the Navigator Matthew A. Henson -- Wally Herbert -- Herodotus -- Sir Edmund Hillary -- Friedrich Hornemann -- Daniel Houghton -- Cornelius Houtman -- Hsuan-Chuang -- Evariste Regis Huc -- Henry Hudson -- Alexander von Humboldt -- (Alexander) Hamilton Hume -- Wilson Price Hunt -- Abu Abdallah Ibn Battuta -- Ahmad Ibn Fadlan -- Abu al-Kasim Ibn Ali al-Nasibi Ibn Hawkal -- Abu al-Hasan Muhammed Ibn Jubayr -- I-Ching -- Abu Abd-Allah Muhammed al-Sharif al-Idrisi -- Roberto Ivens -- Thomas James -- Willem Janszoon -- Anthony Jenkinson -- Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada -- John of Marignolli -- John of Monte Corvino -- Amy Johnson -- Louis Jolliet -- Jordanus of Severac -- Amaro Jose -- Edmund Kennedy -- Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov -- Mary Kingsley -- Kintup -- Ludwig Krapf -- Charles-Marie de La Condamine -- (Alexander) Gordon Laing -- Richard Lander -- Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de la Perouse -- Rene-Robert Cavelier de la Salle -- Pierre de La Verendrye -- Michael J. Leahy -- Ludwig Leichhardt -- Jacob Le Maire -- Meriwether Lewis -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Jan Huyghen van Linschoten -- David Livingstone -- Stephen Long -- Luna -- Sir Alexander Mackenzie -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Ella Maillart -- S.S. Manhattan -- Thomas Manning -- Jean-Baptiste Marchand -- Mariner -- Beryl Markham -- Jacques Marquette -- Al-Mas'udi -- Douglas Mawson -- Sir Francis Leopold McClintock -- Sir Robert McClure -- Alvaro de Mendana -- Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt -- S.S. Meteor -- Thomas Livingstone Mitchell -- Robert Moffat -- Muhammed ibn-Ahmad al-Muqaddasi -- George Chaworth Musters -- Jose Celestino Mutis -- Gustav Nachtigal -- Fridtjof Nansen -- U.S.S. Nautilus -- Nearchus -- Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy -- Jean Nicollet -- Carsten Niebuhr -- Umberto Nobile -- (Nils) Adolf Erik Nordenskjold -- Odoric of Pordenone -- Peter Skene Ogden -- Alonso de Ojeda -- Diego de Ordaz -- Francisco de Orellana -- John Oxley -- Pedro Paez -- John Palliser -- Mungo Park -- Sir (William) Edward Parry -- Robert Edward Peary -- Annie Smith Peck -- Pethahiah of Regensburg -- Ida Pfeiffer -- Harry St. John Philby -- Auguste Piccard -- Jacques Piccard -- Zebulon Pike -- Fernao Mendes Pinto -- Vicente Yanez Pinzon -- Francisco Pizarro -- Maffeo Polo -- Marco Polo -- Nicolo Polo -- Juan Ponce de Leon -- Wiley Post -- Vasily Danilovich Poyarkov -- Nikolai Przhevalsky -- Pytheas -- Pedro Fernandez de Quiros -- Pierre-Esprit Radisson -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Hari Ram -- Antonio Raposo Tavares -- Johannes Rebmann -- Sally Ride -- Susie Carson Rijinhart -- Jacob Roggeveen -- Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs -- Candido Rondon -- Theodore Roosevelt -- James Clark Ross -- Sir John Ross -- Hipolito Ruiz -- Dick Rutan -- Alvaro de Saavedra y Ceron -- Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk -- Willem Schouten -- Georg August Schweinfurth -- Robert Falcon Scott -- Scylax of Caryanda -- Sir Ernest Shackleton -- May French Sheldon -- Kishen Singh -- Nain Singh -- Jedediah Smith -- John Smith -- Juan Diaz de Solis -- John Hanning Speke -- Richard Spruce -- Sputnik -- Lady Hester Stanhope -- Henry Morton Stanley -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Will Steger -- Sir Aurel Stein -- Karl von den Steinen -- John McDouall Stuart -- Robert Stuart -- Charles Sturt -- Sir Percy Sykes -- Abel Janszoon Tasman -- Annie Royle Taylor -- Pedro de Teixeira -- Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova -- Wilfred Thesiger -- David Thompson -- Joseph Thomson -- Alexine Tinne -- Henri de Tonty -- Luis Vaez de Torres -- Andres de Urdaneta -- Pedro de Valdivia -- George Vancouver -- Ludovico di Varthema -- Giovanni da Verrazzano -- Amerigo Vespocci -- Viking -- Voyager -- Joseph Reddeford Walker -- Alfred Russell Wallace -- Samuel Wallis -- Peter Warburton -- James Wellsted -- Charles Wilkes -- Sir (George) Hubert Wilkins -- William of Rubruck -- William John Wills -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- St. Francis Xavier -- Xenophon -- Charles E. Yeager -- Jeana Yeager -- Yermak Timofeyev -- Sir Francis Younghusband
Summary More that 320 world explorers from ancient Greece to space exploration including women and non-Europeans are listed alphabetically in this source Entries are a page or more with selected bibliography and include name and dates with accomplishments and a bibliography for further research. Illustrations accompany many articles. There is a chronology of exploration by area, area maps with names of explorers and a list of explorers by area. There is an index. This edition is for older users than the UXL edition
Analysis Exploration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in Arabic
Subject Explorers -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Baker, Daniel B.
LC no. 92055094
ISBN 0810354217
9772713055
Other Titles Internet atlas