Presents a history of science that focuses on the contributions from non-Western cultures in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific region and how they influenced and guided great minds such as Copernicus, Newton, Darwin and Einstein.

The inspiration for the major motion picture "The Lost City of Z," mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett spent 10 years wandering the forests and death-filled rivers of Brazil in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time toward destination "Z" in 1925, never to be heard from again. This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett's ten years...

"From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America"-- For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. When they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers would reshape Europe and beyond. Their ingenuity, daring,...

Hundreds of islands that once appeared on nautical charts and general atlases are now known to have vanished-or never even existed. How were they detected in the first place? Henry Stommel, an oceanographer and senior scientist at Massachusetts' Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, chronicles his fascinating research in documenting the false discoveries of these phantom islands. British and American Hydrographic Offices compiled lists for navigators...

During the fur trading era, a rare breed of daring men challenged the treacherous Rocky Mountains in search of much-desired beaver pelts. The Indians considered the Rocky Mountains their Sacred Ground. In 1832, wagons would cross South Pass for the first time in the area known today as Wyoming. This paved the way for the Oregon Trail. The mountaineer that accomplished this was an Army captain by the name of Benjamin Bonneville. This book deals with...

Pierre Perrault consigne les impressions fugaces qui l'envahissent à mesure que le brise-glace où il navigue, le Pierre-Radisson, remonte les eaux glacées jusqu'au Grand Nord. Dans sa volonté de comprendre le « mal du Nord », il tire ce livre qui, parmi son œuvre immense, a valeur de testament. Le lecteur y trouve en effet les principaux thèmes qui jalonnent le travail de Perrault : le fleuve, les explorateurs, la poésie, l'odyssée...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God by InstareadPreview: Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story is an account of the organization and findings of a 2015 expedition into the jungle of eastern Honduras. Preston accompanied the expedition and wrote about its discoveries. The expedition was inspired by legends of a lost civilization known as the White City. This city is probably mythical,...

Cuando en 1607 se fundó Jamestown, el primer asentamiento inglés en América, los españoles ya estaban establecidos en Florida y Nuevo México, eran dueños de un vasto territorio al sur y habían descubierto y colonizado parcialmente el interior del continente. Superaron también a los ingleses en humanidad, justicia y amabilidad hacia los nativos. Este volumen ofrece primero la historia del descubrimiento y la conquista; luego, las aventuras...

In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole. What inspired their dangerous fascination? For some, it was the romantic theory about a 'lost world,' a hidden continent in the Arctic Ocean. Others were seduced by new aviation technology, which they...

Profundice en la búsqueda del Nuevo Mundo desde un punto de vista histórico y antropológico. Desde las primeras exploraciones, el contexto histórico de Colón y la España de los Reyes Católicos hasta los 4 viajes colombinos y el choque con las civilizaciones prehispánicas. Una visión completa y rigurosa basada en los últimos hallazgos arqueológicos. Asista al Descubrimiento de América de forma crítica, desde un punto de vista histórico...