Voyages that Changed the World by Peter Aughton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has added large inscription to half-title page. Small mark on half-title page. Small mark on top foredge. Body text and binding are still very good.

Dramatically told, often in the words of the voyagers themselves, and beautifully illustrated with maps, portraits and historic illustrations, these are the gripping stories of how a handful of sailors, adventurers, pirates and mavericks shaped the course of world history.

From ancient Phoenician seafarers to the explorers of the oceans' depths, Voyages that changed the world includes the journeys of Bartholomew Dias and Vasco da Gama, the discoveries of America, the first circumnavigation of the globe, Francis Drakes's adventures in the Golden Hind, the story of the real Robinson Crusoe, the voyage of the Mayflower, Captain Cook's charting of the Pacific, Charles Darwin's epiphany abroad the Beagle, Isambard Kingdown Brunel's race to cross the Atlantic, Amundsen and Shackleton journeying to the ends of the earth.

For all of the seafarers and explorers in this book their exploits would bring immortality for the parts they played in the voyages that changed the world.