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Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars
- Title
- Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars / Andrew Rader.
- Author
- Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan)
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- viii, 344 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A survey of the history and future of human exploration, replete with fun facts about the results of cultural exchanges and the discovery of new frontiers"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "November 2019"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I: In the beginning. Out of the cradle ; Early wanderings ; People of the sea ; Antiquity ; The classical world -- Part II: Rediscovering the world. Barbarians from the North ; Early contacts ; The other Mediterranean ; China's age of exploration ; A sea route to India ; Plunder and gold ; Around the world -- Part III: Modernity. Empires of trade ; Opening continents ; Frontiers of science ; Lands of ice and snow ; To the sky ; The space race ; Seeing through robotic eyes -- Part IV: Becoming Star Trek. Into the future ; The road to Mars ; Becoming spacefaring ; Going interstellar ; Life on other worlds ; The ultimate destination -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-3887
- ISBN
- 9781982123536
- 1982123532
- 9781982123550
- 1982123559
- 9781982123574 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019002126
- 40029601440
- OCLC
- 1085208914
- Author
- Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan), author.
- Title
- Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars / Andrew Rader.
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan). Beyond the known. New York : Scribner, [2019] 9781982123574 (DLC) 2019012995
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029601440
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-3887