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The Lives of Celebrated Travellers (Vol 1-3) - Biographies of Famous Explorers & Adventurers - cover

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers (Vol 1-3) - Biographies of Famous Explorers & Adventurers

James Augustus St. John

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers is a three-volume anthology by British journalist and author James Augustus St. John. It contains over 30 biographies of numerous world explorers, travelers and adventurers who left their mark in the world's history with significant discoveries that changed the course of civilization.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1: 
William de Rubruquis
Marco Polo
Ibn Batūta
Leo Africanus
Pietro della Valle
Jean Baptiste Tavernier
François Bernier
Sir John Chardin
Engelbert Kæmpfer
Henry Maundrell
Volume 2:
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Dr. Thomas Shaw
Frederic Hasselquist
Lady Wortley Montague
Richard Pococke
John Bell
John Ledyard
George Forster
James Bruce
Jonas Hanway
Antonio de Ulloa
Volume 3:
Mungo Park
Peter Simon Pallas
Carsten Niebuhr
Choiseul-Gouffier
John Lewis Burckhardt
Volney
Edward Daniel Clarke
François le Vaillant
Belzoni
Dominique Vivant Denon
Reginald Heber
Available since: 09/15/2022.
Print length: 650 pages.

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