Stewart A. Weaver

Exploration: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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ISBN 13:: 9780199946952
author:: Stewart A. Weaver
format:: Paperback
publisher:: OUP USA
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2015
Pages:: 152
Dimensions:: 17 x 1.3 x 11.2 cm
Genre:: Science & Nature, Earth Sciences & Geography, Education
Condition:: New
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Exploration: A Very Short Introduction explores the quintessential human impulse to venture outside one's society, tracing it from pre-history to the present day. From the Polynesians in the Pacific to the Norse in the Atlantic, and from the depths of volcanoes to the expanses of space, this book examines the history of exploration as encounter.

Stewart Weaver discusses the Columbian "discovery" of the Americas, James Cook's place in the Enlightenment, and Alexander von Humboldt's epochal encounter with tropical South America. The book also considers the significance of imperial expansion in Africa and Central Asia, the race to the North and South Poles, and today's efforts in space and deep sea exploration.

Through this brief study of the history of exploration, Weaver shows how the impulse to explore is the foundation of the globalized world we inhabit today. This book combines a narration of explorers' daring feats with a wide-lens examination of what it fundamentally means to explore.

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