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Encyclopedia of Exploration 2 Volumes Complete
by Carl Waldman; Jon Cunningham; Alan Wexler
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0816046786
- ISBN 13
- 9780816046782
- Seller
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About This Item
Facts on File Inc, 2004. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 2 Volumes Complete. very good set with no previous ownership markings. Volume 1, The Explorers, presents more than 950 biographical entries that begin with birth and death dates, nationality, occupations, and areas of the world explored, followed by an account of the subject's exploration activities. Volume 2, Places, Technologies, and Cultural Trends, has more than 260 A-Z entries on such topics as Aerial photography, Circumnavigation of the world, Drift ice, Fur trade, Native peoples and exploration, Orinoco River, Virginia Company, and Women explorers. Entries range in length from 2 paragraphs to more than 10 pages and are accompanied by 67 photographs and illustrations and 62 maps. An appendix contains maps by region; by ancient routes in the Mediterranean, Europe, and Asia; by new water routes; and by the interior in Asia, the Americas, the Pacific Ocean and Australia, Africa, the Arctic, and the Antarctic. The volume concludes with a very thorough chronology of exploration, a further reading list for the set, a list of volume 2 entries by subject, and a 35-page cumulative index for both volumes. In both volumes, capital letters are used in the text to designate terms that are also entry headings.
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- Bookseller
- karl eynon (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 083279
- Title
- Encyclopedia of Exploration 2 Volumes Complete
- Author
- Carl Waldman; Jon Cunningham; Alan Wexler
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0816046786
- ISBN 13
- 9780816046782
- Publisher
- Facts on File Inc
- Date Published
- 2004
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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