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Explorations : great moments of discovery from the Royal Geographical Society / Edmund Hillary ... [et al.].
- Title
- Explorations : great moments of discovery from the Royal Geographical Society / Edmund Hillary ... [et al.].
- Author
- Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
- Publication
- New York : Artisan, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Hillary, Edmund, Sir.
- Description
- 339 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.
- Summary
- Explorations captures in photographs and interviews the expeditions and emotions of some of the most daring adventurers of the last century. Organized according to geographical region, and accompanied by essays by such famous names as Wilfred Thesiger, Richard Leakey, and Edmund Hillary, the photographs offer a fascinating glimpse of the world's varied landscapes and habitats, its peoples, and ways of life. Some of the pictures recall historic moments in time - Scott finding Amundsen's empty tent at the South Pole, Tenzing Norgay photographed by Hillary on the peak of Everest, the ferryman who took David Livingstone across the river on the last day of his life. Other pictures are remarkable as records of vanished or vanishing peoples, or simply as beautiful pieces of art.
- Uniform Title
- Royal Geographical Society illustrated
- Alternative Title
- Royal Geographical Society illustrated
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalog
- catalogs (documents)
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Catalogs
- Pictorial works
- Catalogues.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Originally published: Royal Geographical Society illustrated. London : Scriptum Editions, 1997.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Lord Jellicoe -- Introduction / John Hemming -- The world through a lens / Michael Freeman -- Asia : land of silk and spices / Edmund Hillary -- Africa : the dark continent / Richard Leakey -- The poles : to the ends of the earth / Ranulph T-W-Fiennes -- The Middle East : desert and oasis / Wilfred Thesiger -- Australasia : uncharted southlands / Christina Dodwell -- The Americas : new worlds / John Hemming -- Selected biographies / Robin Hanbury-Tenison.
- ISBN
- 1579652204 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- ^^2002074608
- OCLC
- 49942735
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library