Great Expeditions

50 Journeys that changed our world

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• Publisher: Collins
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780008196295
• eBook ISBN:
  9780008222611
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: History

Foreword by Levison Wood, bestselling author of Walking the Nile
A comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world.

Throughout history there have been brave men and women who dared to go where few had gone before. They broke new ground by drawing on incredible reserves of courage, fortitude and intelligence in the face of terrible adversity. Their endeavours changed the world and inspired generations.

Spanning several centuries and united by the common theme of the resilience of the human spirit, this is the ultimate collection of the stories of the intrepid explorers who forged new frontiers across land, sea, skies and space.

50 incredible journeys including;
• Tenzing and Hillary's conquest of Everest
• Neil Armstrong's giant leap
• Christopher Columbus' new world
• Amelia Earhart flying the Atlantic
• gold fever in the Yukon
• the hunt for a man-eating leopard in India

Great Expeditions includes not only some of the most famous journeys in history but also introduces many more that ought to be more widely recognised and celebrated.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Levison Wood
• The Giant Leap: Apollo 11 and the Moon landings
• Race to the South Pole: The expeditions of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott
• Darwin and the Beagle: Charles Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle
• Star Man: Yuri Gagarin: The man who fell to Earth
• Finding New Land: Leif Eriksson’s voyage to Vinland
• Adrift in the Pacific: Thor Heyerdahl: The Kon-Tiki man
• Dr Livingstone I Presume?: David Livingstone’s last journey
• The Land Down Under: Captain James Cook and HMS Endeavour
• Top of the World: Hillary and Tenzing: Living in the death zone
• A New World: Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage to the Americas
• Galactic Explorer: The Voyager Interstellar Mission
• The American Frontier: Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition
• Not a Single Man Lost: Ernest Shackleton’s escape from Antarctica
• The Real Indiana Jones: Percy Fawcett: In search of the lost city of gold
• Gold Fever in the Yukon: The Klondike Gold Rush
• The Silent World: Jacques Cousteau and Calypso
• Hunting the Man-Eater: Jim Corbett and the hunt for the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag
• Flying Solo: Amelia Earhart: The Trans-Atlantic heroine
• Inside the Deadly City: René-August Caillié: The outsider who made it inside Timbuktu
• Save the Whale: Anti-whaling campaign, Greenpeace and the Rainbow Warrior
• Heartbreak in the Outback: Burke and Wills in Australia
• Travels in the Orient: Marco Polo’s journey to the fabled Xanadu
• On Her Own in Darkest Africa: Mary Kingsley: Travels in the heart of Africa
• Descent to the Centre of the Earth: Norbert Casteret: Into the abyss at Pierre Saint-Martin
• A Lone Voice in the Wilderness: John Muir: A thousand miles to save the wild places
• Fair Trade: Zheng He’s treasure voyages
• With a Camel and a Compass: Gertrude Bell and her journey to Ha’il
• Take Without Asking: Francisco Pizarro: The raider who ended an empire
• Journey to Lhasa: Alexandra David-Néel’s trek across the Himalayas
• Face of Death: The first successful ascent of the north face of the Eiger
• The Solar Flight: The quest to fly around the globe without fuel
• One Way Ticket: Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world
• Scientific Exploration in the Americas: Alexander von Humboldt, the father of geography
• Running the Rapids: John Wesley Powell’s exploration down the Colorado river
• Farthest North: Fridtjof Nansen’s crushing expedition in the Arctic
• Hidden in Plain Sight: The first woman to circumnavigate the world
• Homeward Bound: Molly, Daisy and Gracie’s 1,600 km walk following a rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia
• Finding Petra: Johann Burckhardt’s discovery of the fabled city
• Trail of Tears: The forced migration of the Native American Tribes
• Around the World on a Bike: Annie Londonderry’s ‘cycle’ around the world
• Unlocking the Islamic World: The travels of Ibn Battuta
• Walk the Amazon: Ed Stafford: Amazon odyssey
• Natural Born Explorer: Naomi Uemura and his solo winter ascent of Denali
• Marathon Man: Amputee, Terry Fox’s incredible run across Canada
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Se: Challenger Deep: Descent to the lowest point on Earth
• The Trials of the Wager: George Anson’s voyage of pride and greed
• Company Man: Abel Tasman: First white man to set foot on Australian soil
• The Northwest Passage: Sir John Franklin’s search for a sea route to the Orient
• Into the Empty Quarter: Wilfred Thesiger’s travels in Arabia
• Across Siberia: Cornelius Rost’s escape from a Siberian Gulag
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• Acknowledgements and photo credits
• About the Publisher