Nineteenth-Century Explorers
From Lewis and Clark to David Livingstone
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2013
211 pages
978-1-62275-031-3 (ISBN)
Description
Although the once-fuzzy outlines of the global map had largely been defined by the 19th century, much had yet to be learned. As some explorers continued to search either for resources or for unknown regions, others increasingly embraced a new kind of discovery-that of scientific knowledge. Readers will journey alongside a host of notable explorers, accompanying Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition-during which they both charted much of the United States and identified 178 new plants-and marvelling at Charles Darwin's revolutionary findings in the Galapagos Islands. Their explorations and many others are chronicled within these pages.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Alexander von Humboldt
- David Thompson
- William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
- Sir John Ross
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
- Zebulon Montgomery Pike
- George William Evans
- John Oxley
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
- Edward Bransfield
- Dixon Denham
- Sir John Franklin
- James Weddell
- Hugh Clapperton
- Basil Hall
- Sacagawea
- William Scoresby
- Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville
- W.C. Wentworth
- Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
- Alexander Gordon Laing
- Charles Sturt
- Robert Moffat
- Hamilton Hume
- Charles Wilkes
- Nathaniel Palmer
- René-Auguste Caillié
- Sir James Clark Ross
- Richard Lemon Lander
- John Lloyd Stephens
- Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure
- Charles Darwin
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Amursky, Graf Muravyov
- John C. Frémont
- David Livingstone
- Ludwig Leichhardt
- Edward John Eyre
- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sir Francis Leopold McClintock
- Johannes Rebmann
- Robert O'Hara Burke
- Heinrich Barth
- Sir Richard Burton
- Sir Samuel White Baker
- Charles Francis Hall
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Adolf Overweg
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Henry Walter Bates
- James Augustus Grant
- John Hanning Speke
- Adolf Erik, Baron Nordenskiöld
- Charles George Gordon
- Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley
- George Wallace Melville
- Charles Montagu Doughty
- Verney Lovett Cameron
- George Washington De Long
- Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov
- Eduard Robert Flegel
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
- Adrien-Victor-Joseph, baron de Gerlache de Gomery
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
