Explorers – A New History : A New History
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
A Norton Short
ISBN-10
132407387X
ISBN-13
9781324073871
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Imprint
WW Norton & Co
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 15th, 2024
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
318 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 21.80 x 2.40 cms
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A reimagined history of exploration featuring a new cast—including fugitives, indigenous pathfinders and immigrants—that celebrates the universal qualities of discovery
The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures—including Sacagawea, Pocahontas and Dr Livingstone—with tales of individuals who are usually denied the title “explorer.” Lockwood’s new cast of adventurers includes Rabban Bar Sawma, a Uighur monk who traversed the Middle East and Europe; Yatsuke, an East African traveller to Japan during the sixteenth century; and David Dorr, a man born in slavery whose travelogues reshaped Americans’ understanding of Africa. In lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection and exchange, these figures unfurl a human tapestry of discovery. Spanning forty centuries and six continents, this thrilling and concise history redefines what it means to discover, who counts as an explorer and what counts as exploration.
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