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  • Discoveries in geography -- History.
     
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  • Outer space -- Exploration.
     
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    Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars / Andrew Rader.
    by Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan), author.
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    New York : Scribner, 2019.
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  • Discoveries in geography -- History.
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  • Discoveries in geography -- Social aspects.
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  • Outer space -- Exploration.
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    9781982123536 (hardcover) :
    1982123532 (hardcover) :
    Description: 
    viii, 344 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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    First Scribner hardcover edition.
    Contents: 
    Introduction -- Part I: In the beginning. Out of the cradle -- Early wanderings -- People of the sea -- Antiquity -- The classical world -- Part II: Rediscovering the world. Barbarians from the North -- Early contacts -- The other Mediterranean -- China's age of exploration -- A sea route to India -- Plunder and gold -- Around the world -- Part III: Modernity. Empires of trade -- Opening continents -- Frontiers of science -- Lands of ice and snow -- To the sky -- The space race -- Seeing through robotic eyes -- Part IV: Becoming Star Trek. Into the future -- The road to Mars -- Becoming spacefaring -- Going interstellar -- Life on other worlds -- The ultimate destination -- Epilogue.
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    "A survey of the history and future of human exploration, replete with fun facts about the results of cultural exchanges and the discovery of new frontiers"--
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