The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany by Mark Collins Jenkins

The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany



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The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany Mark Collins Jenkins
Page: 304
ISBN: 9781426204098
Publisher: National Geographic Society

In centuries past, undertaking a journey meant a voyage into the unknown, traveling for months or years into unexplored areas on the map where cartographers could only speculate "There be dragons." And those fortunate adventurers who made it home again always had fantastical tales to tell—even if sometimes they stretched the truth up to and beyond the breaking point. This eclectic history of exploration sweeps from antiquity to the 1800s, encompassing ages when new marvels might be waiting over the next hill or a new world just over the horizon. Among others, we meet Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian whose extravagant accounts of distant Cathay were mainly true; Sir John Mandeville, ... MORE EBOOKS:







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