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Great Expeditions: 50 Journeys that changed our world
Levison Wood
Foreword by Levison Wood, bestselling author of Walking the NileA 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 IndiaGreat 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.
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Contents
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Foreword by Levison Wood (#ulink_7aedb50d-35a4-53be-bb08-b9d2397ef36c)
The Giant Leap (#ulink_7e0a2511-0939-5e79-a5a6-de914893da7a)
Apollo 11 and the Moon landings (#ulink_7e0a2511-0939-5e79-a5a6-de914893da7a)
Race to the South Pole (#ulink_ee0655ee-b1ca-506e-b6fd-5c152f7cce46)
The expeditions of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott (#ulink_ee0655ee-b1ca-506e-b6fd-5c152f7cce46)
Darwin and the Beagle (#ulink_d225636e-48b0-52c0-89eb-1e72aa1ba65b)
Charles Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle (#ulink_d225636e-48b0-52c0-89eb-1e72aa1ba65b)
Star Man (#ulink_e6a81cad-c2b4-5643-8cfb-d71f7031bd47)
Yuri Gagarin: The man who fell to Earth (#ulink_e6a81cad-c2b4-5643-8cfb-d71f7031bd47)
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
