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Oxford Book of Exploration

The Oxford Book of Exploration, edited by modern-day explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, is a comprehensive anthology of explorers` writings through the ages, documenting how geographical discoveries were viewed by the people whose eyes beheld them. The collection contains the very words of the explorers who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences.Divided into geographical sections, the book contains writing by, among others, Marco Polo, Francis Younghusband, Wilfred Thesiger, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, Sir Edmund Hilary, William Dampier, Sir Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan, captain Scott, Dr David Livingstone, James Cook, Robert Peary and Queen Elizabeth I.

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