Biography--Explorers

script ed.: Kong Lingren; drawing: Zhao Zhihua

Biography--Explorers Biography--Military Zheng He (Chinese mariner, 1371-1433) Age group--Youth (10-18)

Andrea Wulf; a.d.Engl.v. Hainer Kober

Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Explorers von Humboldt, Alexander (1769-1859) Biography--Explorers Philosophy of nature Awards--Royal Society Prizes for Science Books Awards--Ness award

portrait of an adventurer

Ruth Middleton

Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Explorers Biography--Religion--Buddhism David-Neél, Alexandra (French Belgian explorer, 1868-1969)

sous la dir. scientif. de Pierre Fournié & la dir. ed. de Sophie de Sivry

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers

Ranulph Fiennes

Biography--Explorers Explorers Antarctica--British Discoveries in geography / Exploration Scott, Robert Falcon (1868-1912)

the secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mekka, discovered the Kama Sutra, and brought the Arabian Nights to the West

Edward Rice

Biography--Travellers Biography--Military Biography--Explorers Biography--Literature--Britain Orientalists Cartographers Ethnology--History Burton, Richard Francis (Explorer, 1821-1890)

a life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Sara Wheeler

Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Cherry-Garrard, Apsley (Brit.Antarctica explorer, 1886-1959) Antarctica--Discovery and exploration Discoveries in geography / Exploration

Georges Berton; ill. de Dominique Fages

Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Age group--Youth (10-18)

the four voyages, 1492-1504

Laurence Bergreen

North America--Discovery and exploration--To 1600 Caribbean--History--1492-1608 Explorers Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Biography--Explorers Discoveries in geography / Exploration

les grandes aventurières, 1850-1950

prés.p. Alexandra Lapierre

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Biography--Collective--19th century Biography--Collective--20th century Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Women--Travel

Ludwig Leichhardt: ein deutsches Forscherschicksal

Heinz Haufe

Biography--Explorers Discoveries in geography / Exploration Australia Leichhardt, Ludwig (German explorer, 1813-1848) Letters

memories and journeys of a lifetime

Thor Heyerdahl

Biography--Explorers Environmental degradation Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-) Explorers Environmental degradation

Our ascent of the Everest

Sir Edmund Hillary; maps by A. Spark; sketches by George Djurkovic

Mountaineering expeditions--Himalaya Mount Everest Memoirs History Biography--Explorers

a biography

Katharine Sim

Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (Swiss orientalist, 1784-1817) Orientalists

David Hackett Fischer; trad. de l'anglais p. Daniel Poliquin

Biography--Explorers Biography--Military de Champlain, Samuel (French explorer, 1574-1635) North America--Discovery and exploration

René Zey

Biography--Collective Biography--Applied sciences Biography--Explorers Biography--Science

a study of a dynamic personality

James I. MacNair

Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Livingstone, David (Brit.explorer, 1813-1873)

Ranulph Fiennes

Biography--Explorers Biography--Nobility Biography--Literature--Britain Memoirs Fiennes, Ranulph (1944-)

auf den Spuren von Sir Richard Francis Burton

Ilija Trojanow

Biography--Explorers Explorers Indian drama Travel literature (mixed) Burton, Richard Francis (Explorer, 1821-1890) Arabian Peninsula--History Travel--Africa, East

Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe.

Laurence Bergreen

Biography--Explorers Travel--World--Circumnavigation Magellan, Ferdinand (Explorer, 1480-1521)

Margery & James Fisher; drawings by W. E. How who served with the Endurance expedition

Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Shackleton, Ernest Henry (1874-1922)

Hugh Ross Williamson

Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Raleigh, Walter (1554-1618) Biography--Explorers Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Philosophy

by Eric Ecclestone

Raleigh, Walter (1554-1618) Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Philosophy Biography--Explorers

the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition

by Sir Ernest Shackleton

Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Antarctica Discoveries in geography / Exploration Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Shackleton, Ernest Henry (1874-1922) Antarctica--Discovery and exploration

explorations of great naturalists: Charles-Marie de la Condamine, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Richard Spruce

Victor W. von Hagen

Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Collective Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers de la Condamine, Charles-Marie (1701-1774) von Humboldt, Alexander (1769-1859) Darwin, Charles (Engl. naturalist, 1809-1882) Spruce, Richard (1817-1893) Travel--South America Discoveries in geography / Exploration

being the life and adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto

by Maurice Collins

Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Pinto, Fernão Mendes (Portug. explorer, 1509-1583)

the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science

Andrea Wulf

Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Explorers von Humboldt, Alexander (1769-1859) Biography--Explorers Philosophy of nature Awards--Ness award Awards--Royal Society Prizes for Science Books

by J. C. Beaglehole

Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Cook, James (1728-1779)

an autobiography

Memoirs Biography--Explorers Biography--Social Sciences Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Religion--Hinduism Tribes--India Elwin, Verrier (1902-1964)

Columbus entdeckt eine neue Welt

S. Fischer-Fabian

Biography--Explorers Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Discoveries in geography / Exploration

Sir Richard Burton ou le démon de l'aventure

Fawn Brodie; traduit de l'anglais par Gèrard Piloquet

Biography--Explorers Biography--Literature--Britain Burton, Richard Francis (Explorer, 1821-1890)

Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West

Stephen E. Ambrose

United States--History--1789-1809 (Constitutional period) Lewis, Meriwether (US explorer, 1774-1809) Biography--Explorers

légende et tribulations du vice-roi des Indes

Sanjay Subrahmanyam; trad. de l'anglais p. Myriam Dennehy

Da Gama, Vasco (Portuguese explorer, c1460-1524) Biography--Explorers

the last great imperial adventurer

Patrick French

Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Younghusband, Francis (Brit. explorer, 1863-1942)