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Explorers' Sketchbooks

The Art of Discovery & Adventure

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Published: 29th Sep 2016
Dimensions: w 186mm h 278mm d 38mm
Weight: 1495g
ISBN-10: 050025219X
ISBN-13: 9780500252192
Barcode No: 9780500252192
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Synopsis
Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed much at all - the journal. The sketchbooks and journals presented here allow us the opportunity to share, through their own eyes and thoughts, the on-the-spot reactions of around 70 intrepid individuals as they journeyed into frozen wastes, high mountains, barren deserts and rich rainforests. Some are well known, such as Captain Scott, Charles Darwin, Thor Heyerdahl and Abel Tasman; others are unfamiliar, including Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make an unparalleled record of Maya monuments, and Alexandrine Tinne, who died in her attempt to be the first woman to cross the Sahara. Here are pioneering explorers and map-makers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries, men and women. A handful of living explorers, including Wade Davis, provide their thoughts on the art of exploration. Often battered and neglected, stored away and perhaps long forgotten, many of these sketchbooks have themselves awaited rediscovery. Now is the chance to open them again... Includes a foreword by Robert Macfarlane and essays by several living explorers, among them Ghillean Prance, Alan Bean and Wade Davis. Includes a foreword by Robert Macfarlane and essays by several living explorers, among them Ghillean Prance, Alan Bean and Wade Davis.

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'A captivating compendium' - Country Life 'Exquisitely produced...Personality and passion are frequently on display. The scientific excitement is palpable' - Geographical 'Imagine leaning over the shoulder of Captain James Cook as he charts the Pacific, or that of Meriwether Lewis as he and William Clark establish the true extent of the new nation of the United States. That's the sensation you get as you leaf through this book ' - Michael Kerr - Daily Telegraph 'Lets you root around the journals of great wanderers' - Wanderlust 'The excitement of adventure and discovery leaps from the pages ... electrifying' - The Field 'Captivating' - House & Garden 'An outstandingly beautiful book ... fascinating' - Ships in Scale 'Beguiling' - World of Interiors 'Intriguing ... lovingly researched and photographed ... you really feel like you're leafing through a long-lost sketchbook' - RNLI Lifeboat Magazine