Biographical Dictionary of Explorers

Jon Cunningham, Alan Wexler

Description

An informative, fascinating resource suitable for students, researchers, and general readers, this biographical dictionary is a "who was who" of world and space explorers, giving readers a sense of the human drama—the achievements and the challenges—that those who go where few or none have gone before must face. The explorers covered include Jacques Cousteau, Sir Vivian Fuchs, John Glenn Jr., Aleksei Leonov, Annie Peck, Valentina Tereshkova, and many more.

Sujets

• Biographical
• Histoire
• Achievement
• Biography
• Challenge
• Succès (homonymie)
• Space
• World
• Challenge Hebdo
• History
• Explorer

Informations

• Publié par: Infobase Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438182155
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

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Biographical Dictionary of Explorers
Copyright © 2019 by Carl Waldman, Jon Cunningham, Alan Wexler
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Contents Entries Abbott, Henry L. Abert, James W. Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo di Savoia d Aco, Michel Acosta, Jos de Acu a, Crist bal de Adair, James Adams, Harriet Chalmers Adams, William Agricola, Gnaeus Julius Aguirre, Lope de Akeley, Carl Ethan Akeley, Delia Akeley, Mary al-Biruni al-Idrisi Alarc n, Hernando de Albanel, Charles Albuquerque, Afonso de Alexander the Great, route of Alfinger, Ambrosius Allouez, Claude-Jean Almagro, Diego de Almeida, Francisco de Almeida, Louren o de Alvarado, Hernando de Alvarado, Pedro de lvares, Francisco lvarez de Pineda, Alonso lvarez, Manuel Amundsen, Roald Anabara, Semyon Andagoya, Pascual de Andrade, Antonio de Andr e, Salomon August Andreyev, Stepan Anson, George, Baron Anson of Soberton Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d Anza, Juan Bautista de Applegate, Jesse Arago, Jacques Arculf Arias de vila, Pedro Arias de Saavedra, Hernando Armstrong, Neil Arthur, Gabriel Ashley, William Henry Astor, John Jacob Atkinson, Henry Atkinson, Lucy Atkinson, Thomas Witlam Atlasov, Vladimir Vasilievich Audubon, John James Auribeau, Alexandre d Hesmivy d Ayll n, Lucas V squez de Ayolas, Juan de Azara, F lix de Azevado, Francisco de Back, Sir George Baffin, William Baikie, William Balfour Baines, Thomas Baker, Florence Baker, Jim Baker, Sir Samuel White Bakhov, Ivan Balboa, Vasco N ez de Baldaya, Afonso Gon alves Balmat, Jacques Banks, Sir Joseph Baptista, Pedro Jo o bar Sauma, Rabban Baranov, Aleksandr Barents, Willem Baret, Jeanne Barrow, Sir John Barth, Heinrich Bartram, John Bartram, William Basargin, Grigory Gavrilovich Bashmakov, Pyotr Basov, Emelyan Bass, George Bastidas, Rodrigo de Batakov, Anton Bates, Henry Walter Batts, Thomas Baudin, Thomas Nicolas Bauer, Ferdinand Lucas Baumann, Oskar Beale, Edward Beatus of Valcavado Beautemps-Beaupr , Charles-Fran ois Becknell, William Beckwith, Edward Griffin Beckwourth, Jim Beebe, Charles William Beechey, Frederick William Begichev, Nikifor Alekseyevich Behaim, Martin Beketov, Pyotr Bekovich-Cherkassky, Aleksandr Belcher, Sir Edward Bell, Gertrude Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb von Beltrami, Giacomo Benalc zar, Sebasti n de Benavides, Alonzo de Benjamin of Tudela Bent, Charles Bent, James Theodore Bent, William Bering, Vitus Berlandier, Jean-Louis Bernier, Joseph Elz ar Berr o, Antonio de Beutler, August Billings, Joseph Binger, Louis-Gustave Bingham, Hiram Bird, Isabella Biscoe, John Black Beaver Blaeu, Willem Janzoon Blaxland, Gregory Bligh, William Block, Adriaen Blunt, Anne Isabella Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Bocharov, Dmitry Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco de la Bodmer, Karl Bogle, George Boller, Henry A. Bombay, Sidi Bonin, Charles Bonneville, Benjamin de Boone, Daniel Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg Borough, Stephen Borough, William Bougainville, Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe Potentien de Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de Bourgmont, sieur de Bouvet de Lozier, Jean-Baptiste-Charles Boyd, Louise Arner Bozeman, John Brackenridge, Henry Marie Bradbury, John Bransfield, Edward Brazza, Pierre-Paul-Fran ois-Camille Savorgnan de Br beuf, Jean de Br hant de Galin e, Ren de Brendan, Saint Bressani, Francesco-Gioseppe Bridger, Jim Brosses, Charles de Broughton, William Brown, Robert Bruce, James Bruce, William Spiers Brul , tienne Brunel, Olivier Bruni, Antoine-Raymond-Joseph de Brunner, Thomas Bruyas, Jacques Brydges, Harford Jones Buchan, David Bukhgolts, Ivan Dmitryevich Burchell, William John Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig Burke, Robert O Hara Burnes, Sir Alexander Burney, James Burton, Sir Richard Francis Button, Sir Thomas Bylot, Robert Byrd, Richard E. Byron, John Cabeza de Vaca, lvar N ez Cabot, John Cabot, Sebastian Cabral, Gon alo Velho Cabral, Jo o Cabral, Pedro lvares Cabrillo, Juan Cacella, Estev o Cadamosto, Alvise da Cadillac, sieur de Cailli , Ren -Auguste Cameron, Verney Lovett Campbell, John Campbell, Robert (fur trader) Campbell, Robert (trapper) Cano, Juan Sebastian del C o, Diogo Carpini, Giovanni da Pian del Carson, Kit Carteret, Philip Cartier, Jacques Carver, Jonathan Catesby, Mark Catlin, George Cermenho, Sebasti n Mel ndez Rodr guez Chaill -Long, Charles Chamisso de Boncourt, Louis de Champlain, Samuel de Chancellor, Richard Ch ang-ch un Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Toussaint Charcot, Jean-Baptiste Charlevoix, Pierre-Fran ois-Xavier de Chatillon, Henri Cheadle, Walter Butler Chelyuskin, Simeon Chesnard de la Giraudais, Fran ois Chirikov, Aleksey Chisholm, Jesse Choris, Louis Chouteau, Auguste Pierre Chouteau, Jean Pierre Chouteau, Pierre, Jr. Chouteau, Ren Auguste Christie, Charles Chu Ssu-pen Clapperton, Hugh Clark, William Clavijo, Ruy Gonz lez de Clerke, Charles Clyman, James Cocking, Matthew Colenso, William Collinson, Sir Richard Colter, John Columbus, Christopher Commerson, Joseph-Philibert Conti, Niccol di Cook, Frederick Cook, James Cooper, Thomas Thornville Coronado, Francisco C rte-Real, Gaspar C rte-Real, Miguel Cort s, Hern n Cosa, Juan de la Courtauld, Augustine Cousteau, Jacques Covilh , Pero da Cresap, Thomas Cresques, Abraham Crevaux, Jules-Nicolas Croghan, George Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira Ctesias of Cnidus Cunningham, Allan Dallman, Eduard Dampier, William Dana, James Dwight Darwin, Charles Daurkin, Nikolay David-N el, Alexandra Davion, Albert Davis, John Davydov, Gavriil Ivanovich De Haven, Edwin J. De Long, George W. De Smet, Pierre-Jean Dease, Peter Denham, Dixon Desideri, Ippolito Dezhnev, Semyon Ivanovich Dias, Bartolomeu Dias, Din s D az de Sol s, Juan D az del Castillo, Bernal D az, Melchor Dietrich, Amalie Diogenes (Greek merchant) Dodge, Henry Dollier, Fran ois Dom nguez, Francisco Donnaconna Dorion, Marie Dorion, Pierre, Jr. Dorion, Pierre, Sr. Doudart de Lagr e, Ernest-Marc-Louis de Gonzague Doughty, Charles Montagu Drake, Sir Francis Drouillard, George Drygalski, Erich Dagobert von Du Chaillu, Paul Du Sable, Jean-Baptiste Pointe Dubuque, Julien Duclos-Guyot, Pierre Duluth, sieur Dumont d Urville, Jules-S bastien-C sar Dunbar, William Duperrey, Louis-Isadore Dupetit-Thouars, Abel-Aubert Dupuis, Jean Duveyrier, Henri Eannes, Gil Eberhardt, Isabelle Egede, Hans Eir ksdottir, Freydis Elias, Ney Ellsworth, Lincoln Emin Pasha, Mehmed Emmons, George F. Emory, William H. Eratosthenes Erauso, Catalina de Eric the Red Ericsson, Leif Ericsson, Thorvald Escalante, Francisco de Escand n, Jos de Eschscholtz, Johann Friedrich Espejo, Antonio de Estevanico Ethol n, Arvid Adolf Eudoxus Everest, Sir George Evliya, elebi Eyre, Edward John Fallam, Robert Fanning, Edmund Fawcett, Percy Harrison Faxian Fedchenko, Aleksey Pavlovich Fedchenko, Olga Federmann, Nikolaus Fernandes, lvaro Fernandes, Jo o Fern ndez de C rdoba, Francisco (conquistador on the Yucat n Peninsula) Fern ndez de C rdoba, Francisco (conquistador in Panama and Nicaragua) Fern ndez de Oviedo, Gonzalo Ferreira, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferrelo, Bartolom Ferris, Warren Fiennes, Celia Filchner, Wilhelm Finley, John Fitch, Ralph Fitzpatrick, Thomas Fitzroy, Robert Fitzwilliam, William-Wentworth, viscount Milton Flatters, Paul Fleuriot de Langl , Paul Flinders, Matthew Fontenelle, Lucien Forbes, Edward Forrest, Alexander Forrest, Sir John Forster, Georg Forster, Johann Reinhold Foureau, Fernand Fowler, Jacob Foxe, Luke Fraeb, Henry Franch re, Gabriel Francis Xavier, Saint Franklin, Lady Franklin, Sir John Fraser, Simon Freeman, Thomas Fr mont, John C. Freycinet, Louis-Claude de Saulces de Fritz, Samuel Frobisher, Sir Martin Fuca, Juan de Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest Furneaux, Tobias Gagarin, Yuri Gaimard, Joseph-Paul Galaup, Jean-Fran ois de Gallus, Gaius Aelius Galton, Sir Francis Gama, Vasco da Garay, Juan de Garc s, Francisco Garc a, Alejo Garnier, Francis Gaudichaud-Beaupr , Charles Genghis Khan Gerlache, Adrien de Gibault, Pierre Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Giles, Ernest Gist, Christopher Glass, Hugh Glazunov, Andrey Glenn, John Gmelin, Johann Georg Godin des Odanais, Isabela G es, Bento de Golovnin, Vasily M. Gomes, Diogo Gomes, Estev o Gomes, Fern o Gordon, Robert Gore, John Gosnold, Bartholomew Gosse, William Christie Grant, James Augustus Gray, Robert Greely, Adolphus Greenwood, Caleb Gregory, Francis Thomas Gregory, Sir Augustus Charles Grenfell, George Grenville, Richard Grey, Sir George Grijalva, Juan de Groseilliers, sieur de Grueber, Johann Guancanagari Gunnison, John W. Guti rrez, Diego Guzm n, Nu o de Hakluyt, Richard Hall, Charles Francis Hall, James Hamilton, William Hanno Hannu Harkhuf Harriot, Thomas Hartog, Dirk Hatshepsut, expeditions organized by Hawkins, Sir John Hayden, Ferdinand V. Hayes, Isaac Israel Hearne, Samuel Hearsey, Hyder Jung Hecataeus of Miletus Heceta, Bruno Hedin, Sven Anders Henday, Anthony Hennepin, Louis Henry, Alexander (the elder) Henry, Alexander (the younger) Henry, Andrew Henry T. Allen, explorations of Henry the Navigator Henson, Matthew Herbert, Thomas Herjulfsson, Bjarni Herodotus, travels of Heyerdahl, Thor Hillary, Sir Edmund Himilco Hind, Henry Youle Hippalus Hipparchus Hoehnel, Ludwig von Hohermuth, Georg Holywood, John Hood, Robert Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton Hornemann, Friedrich Conrad Houghton, Daniel Houtman, Cornelius Houtman, Frederik Hovell, William Huc, variste-R gis Hudson, Henry Humboldt, Alexander von Hume, Hamilton Hunt, Wilson Price Huon de Kermadec, Jean-Michel Hutten, Philip von I Ching Ibarra, Francisco de Ibn Battutah Ibn Fadlan, Ahmad Ibn Hawqal Ibn Jubayr Ibn Rusta Indicopleustes, Cosmas Irateba Irving, John Treat Ives, Joseph C.