The Great Explorers and Their Journeys of Discovery (Royal Geographical Society)
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The Great Explorers and Their Journeys of Discovery (Royal Geographical Society) by Beau Riffenburgh
Covering professional explorers, botanists hunting for undiscovered plants, missionaries spreading Christianity into unexplored regions, female explorers, and the aristocratic and down-right eccentric, this book takes you to a world still waiting to be discovered.
Beau Riffenburgh is an author and historian specialising in polar exploration. He has served as editor of Polar Record, as the head of the Polar History Group at the Scott Polar Research Institute and as a lecturer in the history faculty of the University of Cambridge. He has written several books on exploration including The Myth of the Explorer and Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod. For Andre Deutsch he wrote The Royal Geographical Society Exploration Experience, The Titanic Experience (2008), and The Royal Geographical Society Exploration Treasury.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780233005270 |
| ISBN 10 | 0233005277 |
| Title | The Great Explorers and Their Journeys of Discovery (Royal Geographical Society) |
| Author | Beau Riffenburgh |
| Series | Y Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2017-12-14 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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