- 1982 edition. 288 pages
- Published by AH, Artist House. London
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Green Boards. Just a bit larger than A4 size book.
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Small owner stamp on free front end paper.
A 4,000 year journey in the company of heroes. Introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs. Illustrated and Indexed.
Since earliest times, men have stepped beyond the horizons accepted placidly by their fellows. With each step the world has grown larger and so has man's knowledge of himself. The gripping story of these pathfinders is told in this book - but with a new depth and appreciation.
The World Atlas of Exploration goes beyond the mere recounting of a series of adventure stories, howerever heroic and harrowing the trials to which the explorers were subjected. Discovery did not, does not, exist in a vacuum. It is part of society's growth, the result of pressures, the dreams of a better world.
How the explorers did it, and to what degree they succeeded depended upon the avaliability of the right equipment - upon such means as there were to hand. The reason why the carrak, and not the caravel, was better for oceanic voyages, rested on the same reasons why, in the 19th century, the Jeannette foundered in Arctic ice and Nansen's Fram did not. For, as men were found to challenge the distant horizons, there were others, the unknown technocrats, whose skills provided the answer to earlier failure.
Finally, The World Atlas of Exploration looks at the consequences of discovery. Where the new land was prepared to accept the presence of man, new nations have been created. Some, unhappily, have been destroyed.
All this - the motives, the means, the consequences - is to be found in this book, 288 pages of txt, illustrations and specially drawn maps, which have been designed to form self-contained stories in their own right.
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