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Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan), author.
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Discoveries in geography -- History.
Discoveries in geography -- Social aspects.
Outer space -- Exploration.
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Beyond the known : h...
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Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars / Andrew Rader.
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Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan), author.
New York : Scribner, 2019.
Subjects
Discoveries in geography -- History.
Discoveries in geography -- Social aspects.
Outer space -- Exploration.
ISBN:
9781982123536 (hardcover) :
1982123532 (hardcover) :
Description:
viii, 344 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Edition:
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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