Product Description

In this golden age of exploration and discovery, our knowledge of this planet is being expanded as never before in human history. Discoveries like plate tectonics, desertification, the hole in the ozone layer, and the greenhouse effect have transformed our understanding of the earth and its climate. And from the mountain peaks to ocean floors, untrodden places are being explored for the very first time. "The Golden Age of Discovery" is a photographic tribute to the adventures, dangers, hardships, and accomplishments of modern expeditions. It also includes profiles of noted explorers as well as features on the main fields of sporting exploration, and John Hemming's text is dramatically enhanced with 200 color photos and maps from around the world. John Hemming was Director of the Royal Geographic Society for more than two decades.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #935359 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
With chapters on rainforests, oceans, marine life, deserts and savannahs, mountains and caves and the polar regions, this book decisively answers the question - what is there left to explore? After 21 years as the director of the Royal Geographical Society, John Hemming concludes that we are far from having seen it all, but are in fact living in a golden age of discovery. This is a chronicle of the efforts of the likes of the Adamsons and Leakeys, Jacques Cousteau, Rachel Carson and many other scientists who are pushing back the boundaries of our knowledge about this planet. Illustrated with great photographs of some of our remotest landscapes. (Kirkus UK)