Explorers and Exploration: Database

After two thousand years of exploration across land and sea and into space, the human urge to explore is as strong as it ever was. Explorers and Exploration looks in detail at the many ways in which the human desire to discover the unknown has shaped people’s understanding of the larger world and their own place in it. From historical, geographical, and motivational perspectives, this set profiles the many explorers who have broken new paths and shaped human history.

ARRANGEMENT
 ? 10 volumes in A-Z format
 ? Additional index volume
 ? 178 articles, color-coded by historical period
 ? Over 700 full-color photographs, diagrams, illustrations, maps, and chronological displays
 ? Glossary
 ? Index
SCOPE - Covering all facets of exploration, this fact-filled reference focuses on the explorers, their expeditions, their discoveries, the means of explorations available to them, and the other men and women who came before or were inspired after. Readers accompany important explorers of twenty-three countries as they travel across the world, under the sea, and into space, and as their books advance from chronometers to remote sensing.
INDEX - Volume 11 contains:
 ? Comprehensive index
 ? Thematic indexes
 ? List of maps; index of maps
 ? Comprehensive glossary
 ? Timeline
 ? Resources for further study
BENEFITS - This easy-to-use reference set, in brining to life deeds of the great explorers of the past, keeps the spirit of exploration alive in readers of the present.