Explorers and discoverers of the world / edited by Daniel B. Baker.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0810354217
- ISBN: 9780810354210
- Physical Description: xli, 637 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research, c1993.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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