000295096 000__ 03857cam\a22003134a\45\0 000295096 001__ 295096 000295096 005__ 20210513111000.0 000295096 008__ 050426r20052004nyuab\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000295096 010__ $$a 2005047849 000295096 020__ $$a0871138999 000295096 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm59881659 000295096 035__ $$a295096 000295096 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBAKER$$dRLS$$dUPZ$$dISE 000295096 042__ $$apcc 000295096 049__ $$aISEA 000295096 05000 $$aG80$$b.F54 2005 000295096 08200 $$a910/.9$$222 000295096 1001_ $$aFleming, Fergus,$$d1959- 000295096 24510 $$aOff the map :$$btales of endurance and exploration /$$cas told by Fergus Fleming. 000295096 250__ $$a1st American ed. 000295096 260__ $$aNew York :$$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$$c2005, c2004. 000295096 300__ $$ax, 518 p., [24] p. of plates :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm. 000295096 500__ $$aOriginally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004. 000295096 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [489]-493). 000295096 5050_ $$apt. 1. The age of reconnaissance: To the heart of the Mongol Empire : Marco Polo (1271-95) -- The wanderings of Ibn Battuta (1325-55) -- Sailing west to America : Christopher Columbus (1492-1506) -- East to the Indies : Vasco da Gama (1497-9) -- A passage to the Pacific : Ferdinand Magellan (1519-22) -- Adventures in the Amazon : Francisco de Orellana (1541-6) -- The quest for the North-East Passage : William Barents (1594-7) -- Mutiny in the Arctic : Henry Hudson (1610-11) -- Looking for a North-West Passage : Luke Foxe and Thomas James (1631-2) -- Colonizing the American wilderness : René La Salle (1669-87) -- pt. 2. The age of inquiry: Linking Russia and America : Vitus Bering (1725-42) -- Measuring the world : Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1735-45) -- In search of the great southern continent : James Cook (1768-79) -- The conquest of Mont Blanc : Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1760-88) -- Into the heart of South America : Alexander von Humboldt (1799-1803) -- The great trigonometrical survey (1800-66) -- Across the American wilderness : Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1803-6) -- Furthest into the Arctic : W.E. Parry (1818-27) -- Across Canada's badlands : John Franklin (1818-25) -- The quest for the Niger : Hugh Clapperton and Richard Landler (1821-31) -- The road to Timbuctoo : Gordon Laing and René Caillié (1824-8) -- Four winters in the Arctic : John Ross (1829-33) -- Charting the Antarctic : James Clark Ross (1839-43) -- 000295096 5050_ $$aThe search for Franklin (1845-59) -- pt. 3. The age of endeavor: Crossing the Australian continent : Robert Burke and William Wills (1860-1) -- The source of the Nile : Richard Burton and John Speke (1857-65) -- The conquest of the Matterhorn : Edward Whymper (1865) -- The great survey : the pundits (1865-1902) -- Marooned off Greenland : Paul Hegemann and Karl Koldewey (1869-70) -- An Arctic drift : Charles Hall, George Tyson and the Polaris (1871-3) -- Across the dark continent : David Livingstone and H.M. Stanley (1871-7) -- The discovery of Franz Josef Land : Carl Weyprecht and Julius von Payer (1872-4) -- Britain's fight for the North Pole : George Nares (1875-6) -- A Siberian disaster : George De Long (1879-82) -- Tragedy on Ellesmere Island : Adolphus Greely (1881-4) -- Skiing to the North Pole : Fridtjof Nansen (1893-6) -- By balloon to the top of the world : Salomon Andrée (1897) -- Across the Sahara to the Congo : Fernand Foureau (1899-1900) -- Italy's northernmost : the Duke of Abruzzi (1899-1900) -- The Pole at last? : Robert Peary and Frederick Cook (1908-9) -- The race for the South Pole : Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen (1911-12) -- Alone in the Antarctic : Douglas Mawson (1911-13) -- The Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition : Ernest Shackleton (1914-16) -- The conquest of Everest? : George Mallory and Sandy Irvine (1924) -- By airship to the North Pole : Umberto Nobile (1928). 000295096 650_0 $$aDiscoveries in geography. 000295096 650_0 $$aExplorers$$xHistory. 000295096 85200 $$bgen$$hG80$$i.F54$$i2005 000295096 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:295096$$pGLOBAL_SET 000295096 980__ $$aBIB 000295096 980__ $$aBOOK 000295096 994__ $$aC0$$bISE