Great Discoverers + CD

Beautifully illustrated gift edition. The book is packed in the original case. The book includes numerous facsimile documents - evidence of the heroic everyday brave pioneers. The publication will undoubtedly serve as an excellent gift. This book invites adventure to the world. This luxuriously illustrated edition will introduce you to the history of the geographical discoveries of all times and peoples, from Erica Redhead, Legendary Travels of Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Spanish Conquistadors, French and Portuguese Labels and to Heroic Travels of Livingstone, Amundsen and Scott. Your companions will be the famous researchers who have given all their strength, and sometimes life itself, for the extension of the horizons of the surrounding world. On 80 pages of the Book of "Great Points" You will find more than 200 illustrations and more than 30 rare, first published facsimile documents that have tremendous historical importance: the scheme of the expedition route to the Antarctic, drawn by Sheklton. Watercolor drawing of Victoria Waterfall, made by David Divingston. Pictures of John Henning Speckell, depicting representatives of African fauna. Exposure from the Tordesillas contract. The map of the Orinoco River site, made by Alexander von Humboldt. The book includes a CD-ROM with a picture of 35 cards from the archives of the Royal Geographic Society. The book "The Great Points" will be interesting to both modern travelers and connoisseurs and lovers of world history