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EXPLORERS Christopher Columbus • Sir Francis Drake Marco Polo • Captain Cook • Apollo XI Scott of the Antarctic • Leif Erikson Plus many more...
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Scott’s men in happier times
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The golden age of exploration
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The Amazon housed many great treasures
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Ibn Battuta encountered Christian culture in Constantinople
Stars and stripes at the Sea of Tranquillity
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’s Australia as w outback far o a step to
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An encounter in with the locals on az Am e th
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Marco Polo brought the world to the masses
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MALLORY AND IRVINE
Did a teacher and an engineer conquer Everest in 1924?
GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE TUDOR AGE Need to know ...p14 Who Discovered America? ...p24 Timeline – Milestones in the Age of Discovery ...p30 Sir Francis Drake – England’s Sea Dragon ...p32
IBN BATTUTA
Thirty years exploring medieval Africa and Asia
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THE LOST CITY OF Z
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The quest to find a legendary city in the Amazon
Everest: on top of the world
JAMES COOK
The captain’s discovery of Hawaii would be his last
MARCO POLO
He changed the way the west looked at the world
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
An 8,000-mile mission across unexplored America
Zheng He’s party numbered tens of thousands
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Captain Cook found the wonders of Hawaii
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SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC
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BURKE AND WILLS
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FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA
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APOLLO II
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His final, tragic expedition to the South Pole
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LEIF ERIKSON
Was a Viking the first European to discover America?
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A doomed exploration of the Australian outback
The first man to navigate the whole of the Amazon
One giant leap sees a man set foot on the Moon
HENRY HUDSON
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ZHENG HE
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Mutiny and mystery in the New World
The Chinese mariner with a vast fleet of giant ships
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GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE TUDOR AGE
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uring the 15th and 16th centuries, powerful European nations embarked on frenetic campaigns of global discovery, colonial conquest and tradeorientated empire building. This was an era of intense ocean-crossing exploration. This was the Age of Discovery. The impact of the period was immense. The West’s understanding of the planet skyrocketed, as a ‘New World’ was revealed across the Atlantic. Enormous wealth poured into Europe, the daily diet of millions changed and technology boomed. Meanwhile, the African slave trade escalated, and disease and death were delivered to many indigenous peoples, whose cultures were also damaged or even destroyed.
These consequences were as unpredictable as the new seas were uncharted. The Vikings had explored North America’s east coast centuries earlier, but their findings weren’t shared. While Aristotle showed, in the fourth century BC, that the Earth was spherical, a myth persisted that a great nothingness existed beyond the entrance to the Mediterranean. Explorers of the age were sailing off the edge of the map.
NOW READ ON… NEED TO KNOW 1 Into the Darkness
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2 Who Went Where and When?
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p18 4 Round the World p20 5 A Sailor’s Life p22 3 The Spice Race
WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA? Columbus and Cabot p24
TIMELINE Milestones in the Age of Discovery p30
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
England’s Sea Dragon p32
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Explore the Age of Discovery p37
“THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA AND THAT OF A PASSAGE TO THE EAST INDIES… ARE THE TWO GREATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND” ECONOMIST AND PHILOSOPHER ADAM SMITH, 1776
CAPTAINS OF DISCOVERY
Columbus, Cabot and Drake (left to right) led the way in this era of exploration
LEIF ERIKSON
BOLD ADVENTURER Leif Erikson, the Viking hero and true European discoverer of the Americas
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LEIF ERIKSON’S
VOYAGE TO VINLAND Follow the sagas and explore the exploits of the very first Europeans to visit America
“Columbus wasn’t the first European to set foot on American soil. Not by a long shot”
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From the Vikings to the Space Race, the story of humankind is entwined with our search for what lies over the hills, across the sea or beyond the stars. In this special edition from the makers of History Revealed magazine, we meet the intrepid travellers whose exploits have made them household names INSIDE YOU WILL FIND:
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