Explorers

by Desmond Wilcox and Wilcox Desmond

Book by Wilcox, Desmond This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0563128763
• ISBN13: 9780563128762
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It could have done without the photographs of film stars.

This book provides the reader with an overview of some well known as well as some lesser known names in the world of early exploration. Names such as Amundsen, Doughty, Stanley, Wills, Kingsley, Jedediah Smith, Humboldt, Cook, Pizarro and Columbus are introduced to the reader as though for the first time. Each mini biography is afforded some 25-30 pages of immensely readable and interesting text. About halfway through each chapter, however, we suddenly find a selection of colour photographs from a BBC television film of the life of the explorer in question and only now do we realise this book is based on a BBC series called Explorers. Costume drama from a bygone age is what the BBC does best and one can be certain the series was thoroughly and accurately researched. The book, however, offers nothing more than an insight into the lives and achievements of nine great men and one outstanding woman. NM