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Explorers: A New History

Matthew Lockwood
3.69/5 (97 ratings)
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A surprising history of exploration featuring a new cast―including fugitives, indigenous pathfinders, and immigrants―that celebrates the universal qualities of discovery.

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures―including Sacagawea, Pocahontas, and Dr. David Livingstone―with tales of individuals who are usually denied the title “explorer.” Lockwood’s new cast of adventurers includes Rabban Bar Sawma, a Uighur monk who traversed the Middle East and Europe; Yatsuke, an East African traveler to Japan during the sixteenth century; and David Dorr, a man born in slavery whose travelogues reshaped Americans’ understanding of Africa. In lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange, these figures unfurl a human tapestry of discovery. Spanning forty centuries and six continents, this thrilling and concise history redefines what it means to discover, who counts as an explorer, and what counts as exploration.
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9781324073871
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B0CTXMPN4B

Explorers: A New History

Matthew Lockwood
3.69/5 (97 ratings)
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A surprising history of exploration featuring a new cast―including fugitives, indigenous pathfinders, and immigrants―that celebrates the universal qualities of discovery.

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures―including Sacagawea, Pocahontas, and Dr. David Livingstone―with tales of individuals who are usually denied the title “explorer.” Lockwood’s new cast of adventurers includes Rabban Bar Sawma, a Uighur monk who traversed the Middle East and Europe; Yatsuke, an East African traveler to Japan during the sixteenth century; and David Dorr, a man born in slavery whose travelogues reshaped Americans’ understanding of Africa. In lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange, these figures unfurl a human tapestry of discovery. Spanning forty centuries and six continents, this thrilling and concise history redefines what it means to discover, who counts as an explorer, and what counts as exploration.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
132407387X
ISBN13:
9781324073871
kindle Asin:
B0CTXMPN4B

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