Pathfinders: a global history of exploration [1st pbk. ed]
9780393062595, 0393062597, 9780393330915, 9780393242478, 1938399412, 0393330915
A distinguished scholar traces the history of exploration from a global perspective, following the pathfinders and their
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Pages xvii, 428 pages: illustrations (some color), maps (some color; 24 cm
Year 2006;2007
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Table of contents :
1. Stretching : the first trail finders from gathering cultures to great empires --
2. Reaching : exploring the oceans to about a thousand years ago --
3. Stirring : landward explorations in late antiquity and the middle ages --
4. Springing : the maritime turn of the late Middle Ages and the penetration of the Atlantic --
5. Vaulting : the great leap forward of the 1490s --
6. Girdling : connecting global routes, c.1500-c.1620 --
7. Connecting : global reconvergence, c.1620-c.1740 --
8. Deepening : enhancing the world-picture, c.1740s-c.1840s --
9. Globalizing : the narrowing horizon, c.1850-c.2000.