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Informationen zum Autor Simon Reeve is an adventurer and New York Times bestselling author who has travelled to more than 120 countries making award-winning documentaries for the BBC. They include Caribbean! Indian Ocean! Tropic of Cancer and Equator. Simon has received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award for "an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding"! and the prestigious Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society. His unique brand of documentaries! combining travel and adventure with environmental! political! and conservation issues! has taken him across jungles! deserts! mountains and oceans! through some of the most remote and beautiful regions of our planet. Klappentext An illustrated history of human exploration and travel. Follow in humanity's footsteps around the globe from the first trade networks to the epic Voyager space missions, with exciting accounts of history's most famous, significant and thrilling journeys. Lavishly illustrated. Zusammenfassung Follow the voyages of the Vikings, pursue plundering pirates, trace the Hippie Trail or set off on a flight to the Moon. A thrilling expedition awaits you on every page. Journeys have arisen from all manner of impulse, from migration and the search for food, to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity, or simply the quest for adventure. This book is a lavishly illustrated account of human travel, complete with a foreword by world traveller and writer Simon Reeve. Packed with stories of human movement and endeavour, Journey lets you experience the excitement and romance of travel, covering everything from quests across the Silk Road and the adventures of Marco Polo to explorations in space and underwater. Discover ancient maps, biographies of conquerors, explorers and travellers, stories of scientific discovery and technological innovation, stunning works of art, and catalogues of travel-related memorabilia. This truly worldwide account is a glorious celebration of human journeys, and will make an impressive gift for any lover of travel and history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Ancient World 1: Introduction 2: Journeys from the cradle 3: Minoan seafarers 4: Travel in ancient Egypt 5: The expedition to Punt 6: Polynesian navigators 7: Around Africa 8: Persian couriers 9: The Greek world 10: The travels of Odysseus 11: Alexander the Great 12: The travels of Zhang Qian 13: Across the Alps 14: Strabo 15: The Roman Empire 16: The Tabula Peutingeriana 17: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 18: Ptolemy’s Geographia 2: Trade and Conquest 1: Introduction 2: Xuanzang’s journey to India 3: Journey to the West 4: Kingdom of Heaven 5: The spread of Islam 6: Arab exploration 7: The astrolabe 8: Voyages of the Vikings 9: The Crusades 10: Prester John 11: Medieval pilgrimages 12: Medieval travel accounts 13: The Silk Road 14: The travels of Marco Polo 15: On wheels 16: Caravanserai 17: Trans-Saharan salt caravans 18: Ibn Battuta 19: Medieval maps 3: The Age of Discovery 1: Introduction 2: Zheng He 3: Ships 4: Around Africa to India 5: A new world 6: After Columbus 7: First map of the New World 8: Circumnavigating the globe 9: Cortés and the conquest of the Aztecs 10: Pizarro’s conquest of Peru 11: The discovery of the Amazon 12: The Columbian Exchan...
