Historia de la exploración mapa a mapa

The first migrations out of Africa, the astonishing voyages of Polynesian navigators, the California Gold Rush, and the Space Race—this exceptional book explains the movements of cultures and people who set off into the unknown in search of adventure or a better life. The maps, specially commissioned for this book, reveal the key factors of each journey and why certain routes were chosen over others. The voyages of history's great explorers, from Christopher Columbus and Zheng He to Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo, come to life with photographs and illustrations, not forgetting recent missions to map the ocean depths and the surface of Mars.