Explorers' Sketchbooks

The Art of Discovery & Adventure

Huw Lewis-Jones, Kari Herbert (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2016
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-25219-2 (ISBN)

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Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the years, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed - the journal. In this title, the sketchbooks and journals presented allow us to share, the on-the-spot reactions of around 70 intrepid individuals as they journeyed far corners of the earth.

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.

Huw Lewis-Jones is former curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute and National Maritime Museum. Among his other books are Across the Arctic Ocean, The Conquest of Everest and The Crossing of Antarctica. Kari Herbert, explorer Sir Wally Herbert’s daughter, is the author of The Explorer’s Daughter, In Search of the South Pole and Heart of the Hero.

Foreword by Robert Macfarlane • Introduction: These Rough Notes, Huw Lewis-Jones & Kari Herbert • The Sketchbooks • Essays: This Glorious Forest, Ghillean Prance; Another World, Alan Bean; Infinite Beauty, Tony Foster; Indispensable Friends, David Ainley; Making Marks, Wade Davis

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	With over 400 illustrations in colour and black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	270 x 195 mm
Gewicht	1440 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-500-25219-X / 050025219X
ISBN-13	978-0-500-25219-2 / 9780500252192
Zustand	Neuware