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Round About the Earth - Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (Paperback)
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Round About the Earth - Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (Paperback)
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Loot Price R508
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For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways
to circle the Earth-by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling,
driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily
power. The story begins with the first centuries of
circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt. Starting with
Ferdinand Magellan's dangerous voyage, Joyce Chaplin takes us on a
trip of our own as we travel with Francis Drake, William Dampier,
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, and James Cook. As sea travel grew
much safer and passengers came on board, circumnavigation became a
fad, as captured in Jules Verne's classic novel Around the World in
Eighty Days. Newspapers sponsored racing contests, and people
sought ways to distinguish themselves-by bicycling around the
world, for instance, or by sailing solo. Finally humans took to the
skies to circle the globe in airplanes. Not much later, Sputnik,
Gagarin, and Glenn pioneered a new kind of circumnavigation-in
orbit. Through it all, the desire to take on the planet has tested
the courage and capacity of generations of bold men and women.
Their exploits show us why we think of the Earth as home. Round
About the Earth is itself a thrilling adventure.
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