The Explorers.
Lewis Lord and others.
- U.S. News & World Report, 2004.
- SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 6, Global Issues, 1522-3221; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: The Explorers, Feb. 23-March 1, 2004; pp. 50+.
This article provides a brief history of the careers and paths of various explorers from antiquity through modern times including Lewis & Clark, the first Americans, Zheng He, known as "the Chinese Columbus" (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT), Rabban Sauma, Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Gerard Mercator, Vitus Bering, Captain James Cook, the pirate William Dampier, Ernest Henry Wilson, Bertrand and Jacques Piccard, Eric Shipton and Roald Amundsen.
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Amundsen, Roald 1872-1928 Bering, Vitus 1680-1741 Cook, James 1728-1779 Dampier, William 1652-1750 Drake, Francis ca. 1540-1596 Magellan, Ferdinand ca. 1480-1521 Mercator, Gerardus 1512-1594 Sauma, Rabban ca. 1260-1313 Shipton, Eric 1907-1977 Wilson, Ernest Henry 1876-1930 Zheng He 1371-1433
Anthropology--Research Ballooning--History Botanists Cartography Discoveries in geography Explorers Frontier thesis Indians of North America--History Indians of South America--History Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Mountaineers Piccard family Prehistoric peoples--America Voyages around the world