An edition of The modern explorers
(2013)
The modern explorers
by Robert Twigger and Robin Hanbury-Tenison
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Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. This title deals with this topic.
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Discoveries in geography, Explorers, History, BiographyTimes
20th century, 21st centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Table of Contents
Exploration: an alliance with adventure
Frostbitten fingers / Ranulph Fiennes
Skiing solo to the South Pole / Liv Arnesen
Alone across antarctica coast to coast / Børge Ousland
Measuring the Arctic sea ice / Pen Hadow
A year in Siberia / Mikael Strandberg
Across the Sahara sideways / Michael Asher
Walking across Australia unassisted / Jon Muir
The sand dunes of the Kum Tagh / John Hare
The forty days road by camel / Arita Baaijens
Egypt's great sand sea on foot / Robert Twigger
The Taklamakan: desert of no return / Bruno Baumann
Plant-hunting in the Amazon / Ghillean Prance
The last Sertanista / Sydney Possuelo
Unconventional explorations of a conservationist in the 21st century / J. Michael Fay
Traversing the Darien Gap / Wade Davis
Exploring the forest canopy by balloon / Meg Lowman
Interactive in the heart of Borneo / Martin Holland
The Siachen Glacier: ice highway / Stephen Venables
Shivling: climbing the unclimbed / Chris Bonington
First British woman to climb Everest / Rebecca Stephens
Standing on the edge of an eruption / Haraldur Sigurdsson
Dizz fingers: to the summit of 'El Cap' / Karen Darke
Sailing the Atlantic in a leather boat / Tim Severin
A never-ending ocean journey / Henk De Velde
The Northwest passage by sail / Jeff Macinnis
Kayaking the Solomon Islands chain / Jon Turk
Pedal-power across the pacific / Jason Lewis
The Congo, giant of rivers / John Blashford-Snell
South America north to south / Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Africa east to west by boat / Mirella and Lorenzo Ricciardi
The true source of the Yellow River / Wong How Man
Where the Mekong rises / Michel Peissel
Diving into the past / George Bass
Mulu: deep under Borneo / Andy Eavis
Caving in the Islands of Patagonia / Jean-François Pernette
Dinosaur-hunting in Mongolia / Mark Norell
In search of King Solomon's mines / Tahir Shah
Sunken worlds / Franck Goddio
Inca mummies on Andean peaks / Johan Reinhard.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-298) and index.
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