What Geography and Exploration argues
- Exploration turned the blank spaces of the map into measured, navigable knowledge.
- From Strabo's Geographica to Shackleton's Antarctic: the long project of charting the world and our place in it.
Primary works in Geography and Exploration (13)
- Strabo — Geography (Geographica) (23) — Book · read the full text
- Marco Polo — The Travels of Marco Polo (1300) — Book · read the full text
- Ibn Battuta — Travels in Asia and Africa (1355) — Book · read the full text
- Christopher Columbus — Journal of the First Voyage (1492) — Book · read the full text
- Antonio Pigafetta — Magellan's Voyage Around the World (1525) — Book · read the full text
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca — Naufragios (1542) — Book · read the full text
- Richard Hakluyt — The Principal Navigations (1589) — Book · read the full text
- James Cook — The Journals of Captain Cook (1768) — Book · read the full text
- Alexander von Humboldt — Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions (1814) — Book · read the full text
- George Perkins Marsh — Man and Nature (1864) — Book · read the full text
- Richard Henry Major — The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator (1868) — Book · read the full text
- Ernest Shackleton — The Heart of the Antarctic (1909) — Book · read the full text
- Mark Twain — Life on the Mississippi (1883) — Book · view citation
Chambers connected to Geography and Exploration
- Earth Science — Charting the Earth ↔ understanding its systems
- Oceanography — Voyages of discovery ↔ the science of the seas
- Natural History — Exploration gathered the specimens natural history classified
- Ecology — Humboldt and Marsh: from exploration to the first science of human impact on nature