Explorers and Travellers - Couverture souple

Greely, Greely

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1313633135 ISBN 13 : 9781313633130

Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The compiler of a series of sketches of American Explorers and Travellers experiences at the very outset a serious embarrassment from the superabundant wealth of original material at his command. The history of America for two hundred years after the voyage of Joliet has been the history of courageous, persistent, and successful exploration, wherein the track of the explorer, instantly serving as a trail for the pioneer, has speedily broadened into the wagonroad of invading immigrants. Explorations and journeys of such an extent as in other and older lands would have excited praise and merited reward have been so frequent in this continent as to pass almost unnoticed. Hence the scope of this modest volume is necessarily confined to explorations of great importance or peculiar interest, and when made by men of American birth who are no longer living. In deference to the authors advisers, two exceptions have been made Du Chaillu and Stanley, Americans by adoption otherwise African exploration, so wondrously successful in this generation and so fruitful in its results, would have been unrepresented.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HardPress Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1313633135
• ISBN 13: 9781313633130
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 402
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