History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration
History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration
A lecture series from The Great Courses
Door: History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration
Luisterduur: 1 uur 15 minuten
Datum uitgave: 06/08/2024
ISBN: 9789085302711
Prijs: €39,99
Samenvatting
Exploration is in our genes. Throughout history, one of the deepest human impulses has been the drive to explore, encounter, and know the unknown. This basic human longing can be traced all the way back to the most ancient origins of exploration over 60,000 years ago, when prehistoric wanderers first settled the globe. Today’s high rates of global tourism and mass migrations reflect continuity with the restless habits of our ancestors.
From ancient wayfarers to modern astronauts, a steady succession of intrepid individuals can take the credit for binding the continents together, connecting previously isolated peoples, and sparking a cross-fertilization of ideas, technologies, and even foods.
In creating new trade routes and initiating a commerce of ideas, explorers have played perhaps the most active role in shaping the globalized world. The trails they blazed were fraught with danger, as they contended with disease, starvation, mutiny, perilous weather, and even cannibals.
Inhoud
CH1. The Earliest Explorers
CH2. The Scientific Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
CH3. St. Brendan: The Travels of an Irish Monk
CH4. Xuanzang’s Journey to the West
CH5. Leif Eriksson the Lucky
CH6. Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville
CH7. Ibn Battuta: Never the Same Route Twice
CH8. Portugal’s Great Leap Forward
CH9. The Enigmatic Christopher Columbus
CH10. Magellan and the Advent of Globalization
CH11. The Ruthless Ambition of the Conquistadors
CH12. Henry Hudson: Death on the Ice
CH13. The Jesuits on a Global Mission
CH14. Captain Cook Maps the World
CH15. Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer Genius
CH16. Jefferson Dispatches Lewis and Clark
CH17. Sir John Franklin’s Epic Disaster
CH18. Ida Pfeiffer: Victorian Extreme Traveler
CH19. Japan Discovers the West
CH20. Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa
CH21. Arctic Feats and Fates
CH22. Antarctic Rivalries
CH23. A Deep-Sea Dive into the Mariana Trench
CH24. The Race to Outer Space
Inhoudsopgave
CH1. The Earliest Explorers
CH2. The Scientific Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
CH3. St. Brendan: The Travels of an Irish Monk
CH4. Xuanzang’s Journey to the West
CH5. Leif Eriksson the Lucky
CH6. Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville
CH7. Ibn Battuta: Never the Same Route Twice
CH8. Portugal’s Great Leap Forward
CH9. The Enigmatic Christopher Columbus
CH10. Magellan and the Advent of Globalization
CH11. The Ruthless Ambition of the Conquistadors
CH12. Henry Hudson: Death on the Ice
CH13. The Jesuits on a Global Mission
CH14. Captain Cook Maps the World
CH15. Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer Genius
CH16. Jefferson Dispatches Lewis and Clark
CH17. Sir John Franklin’s Epic Disaster
CH18. Ida Pfeiffer: Victorian Extreme Traveler
CH19. Japan Discovers the West
CH20. Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa
CH21. Arctic Feats and Fates
CH22. Antarctic Rivalries
CH23. A Deep-Sea Dive into the Mariana Trench
CH24. The Race to Outer Space
Over de spreker: History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration
Exploration is in our genes. Throughout history, one of the deepest human impulses has been the drive to explore, encounter, and know the unknown. This basic human longing can be traced all the way back to the most ancient origins of exploration over 60,000 years ago, when prehistoric wanderers first settled the globe. Today’s high rates of global tourism and mass migrations reflect continuity with the restless habits of our ancestors.
From ancient wayfarers to modern astronauts, a steady succession of intrepid individuals can take the credit for binding the continents together, connecting previously isolated peoples, and sparking a cross-fertilization of ideas, technologies, and even foods.
In creating new trade routes and initiating a commerce of ideas, explorers have played perhaps the most active role in shaping the globalized world. The trails they blazed were fraught with danger, as they contended with disease, starvation, mutiny, perilous weather, and even cannibals.
Inhoud
CH1. The Earliest Explorers
CH2. The Scientific Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
CH3. St. Brendan: The Travels of an Irish Monk
CH4. Xuanzang’s Journey to the West
CH5. Leif Eriksson the Lucky
CH6. Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville
CH7. Ibn Battuta: Never the Same Route Twice
CH8. Portugal’s Great Leap Forward
CH9. The Enigmatic Christopher Columbus
CH10. Magellan and the Advent of Globalization
CH11. The Ruthless Ambition of the Conquistadors
CH12. Henry Hudson: Death on the Ice
CH13. The Jesuits on a Global Mission
CH14. Captain Cook Maps the World
CH15. Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer Genius
CH16. Jefferson Dispatches Lewis and Clark
CH17. Sir John Franklin’s Epic Disaster
CH18. Ida Pfeiffer: Victorian Extreme Traveler
CH19. Japan Discovers the West
CH20. Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa
CH21. Arctic Feats and Fates
CH22. Antarctic Rivalries
CH23. A Deep-Sea Dive into the Mariana Trench
CH24. The Race to Outer Space
