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<p>&#8220;This handsome book, from the author of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Exploration, is a chronological survey of the world&#8217;s most important and audacious explorations, from the circumnavigation of Africa in 600 B.C.E. to Roald Amundsen&#8217;s conquest of the Northwest Passage and well beyond. The illustrations&#8212;period maps, journals entries, photographs&#8212;are terrific.&#8221; &#8212;New York Times <p>&#8220;For visionaries of any age: Ray Howgego&#8217;s The Book of Exploration (Bloomsbury) is a tour of history&#8217;s boldest adventurers and their expeditions, brimming with antique maps and journals.&#8221;&#160;&#160; &#8212;Vogue

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Ray Howgego's interest in exploration began as a twelve-year old when he started a collection of travel books that now extends to some four thousand volumes. His imagination fired by the many narratives of travel he had read, he set off twenty-one years ago on a voyage of discovery to retrace some of the myriad routes taken by explorers of the past. Armed with a grasp of most European languages and a passable acquaintance with the many others necessary for far-flung expeditions, he embarked on journeys that have taken him to some of the most remote places on earth. It was an odyssey that culminated in his four-volume Encyclopedia of Exploration--now a standard reverence work throughout the world which in 1200 pages and 1.2 million words details the accomplishments of 7500 travelers; in fact, every traveler who in some way contributed to the geographical knowledge of our planet.

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