Nature''s Explorers - Adventurers Who Recorded the Wonder of the Natural World

This sumptuous volume reveals the lives of some of history's greatest explorers, using the specimens they collected, the letters they wrote and the art they created to record their discoveries. Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries have been specially chosen to illustrate each essay and many are published here for the first time.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrea Hart is Library Special Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum, London.

Zusammenfassung

This sumptuous volume reveals the lives of some of history's greatest explorers, using the specimens they collected, the letters they wrote and the art they created to record their discoveries. Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries have been specially chosen to illustrate each essay and many are published here for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Various
• Mitarbeit: Andrea Hart (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Natural History Museum
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780565094645
• ISBN: 978-0-565-09464-5
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Ratgeber > Natur; Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Natur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke