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Immaculately produced in true Thames & Hudson style, incorporating 420 superb, well chosen colour illustrations and specially commissioned maps, all blended in perfect harmony with the text and even audaciously employed to bring life to the contents pages, this historical survey of travel and exploration is a joy to handle. A total of 70 sections, each two to five pages in length, are devoted either to general chronological/geographical period surveys or else to individual travellers and explorers.
“Out of Africa (100,000‐50,000 years ago)” starts the human journey: “At first, modern humans flourished only in tropical Africa, south of the Sahara...
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