Pathfinders: a global history of exploration

Abstract

1. Stretching: The First Trail-Finders from Gathering Cultures to Great Empires 2. Reaching: Exploring the Oceans to About a Thousand Years Ago 3. Stirring: Landward Explorations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 4. Springing: The Maritime Turn of the Late Middle Ages and the Penetration of the Atlantic 5. Vaulting: The Great Leap Forward of the 1490s 6. Girdling: Connecting Global Routes, c. 1500-1620 7. Connecting: Global Reconvergence, c. 1620-1740 8. Deepening: Enhancing the World-Picture, c. 1740s-c.1840s 9. Globalizing: The Narrowing World, c. 1850 to c. 2000 Notes Index

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