Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

A distinguished scholar traces the history of exploration from a global perspective, following the pathfinders and their expeditions over the course of five millennia to the farthest reaches of the world, from ancient Egypt, through the merchants and missionaries of the Silk Roads, to the discovery of the New World and the nineteenth-century expedi

• Author
• Felipe Fernández-Armesto

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 428

• Publisher
• W. W. Norton & Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780393062595

• Genres
• history, travel, adventure, geography, historical

• Release date
• 2006