All About History - Book Of Great Explorers 2015 (gnv64) torrent

All About History - Book Of Great Explorers 2015
English | 36 pages | True PDF | 41.3 mb

When the Romans printed the first world map 2,000 years ago, little did they know that half of it was missing. It wasn’t until a handful of brave explorers dared to set sail across those never-ending oceans that we came to discover the New World. Here we delve deeper into the fascinating history of exploration, from Antarctic treks to space travel.

CONTENTS
04 Timeline
2,000 years of exploration by land, sea and sky
06 Hall of Fame
Meet ten well-known and not-so-well-known explorers who dared to venture into unchartered territory
08 Columbus: Explorer, icon, murderer
Was there a darker side to the world’s most iconic explorer?
16 Apollo 11 landing
A NASA employee describes man’s first steps on the Moon
20 Heroes & Villains: Hernán Cortés
The adventures of this infamous Spaniard and his brutal and bloody conquest of the Americas
24 Race to the Antarctic
Follow Captain Scott’s perilous journey across snow and ice, right up to his tragic end
32 How the world discovered Australia
We discover how strong winds, astral bodies, religious fervour and economics led us to the great land of the south.