The Seventy Great Journeys in History

£24.95

The stories of Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong are just some of the great explorers whose stories are told here alongside hundreds of evocative illustrations, portraits, photographs, paintings and maps.

Robin Hanbury-Tenison, the well-known explorer, author and conservationist has pulled together contributions from his renowned contemporaries, such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Pen Hadow, Robin Knox-Johnston and Christopher Ondaatje, to chronicle the stories and voyages of discovery and exploration.

Beginning with the extraordinary migrations out of Africa by our earliest ancestors, the book then chronicles Alexander the Great’s journey to the Indus and Hannibal crossing the Alps, followed by Genghis Khan and Ibn Battuta travels in medieval times. The Renaissance saw Columbus arrive in America and the first circumnavigation of the world, followed later by Tasman, Bering and Cook putting their names on the map. Later still come the great scientific journeys of von Humboldt and Darwin until we come to modern times when the inhospitable ends of the earth were reached and the tallest mountain conquered.

The human stories of triumph and success contrast beautifully with those of hardship, tragedy and incredible courage to form an anthology no lover of adventure should be without.