Great Expeditions: 50 Journeys that changed our world

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Foreword by Levison Wood, presenter of Walking the Americas. A comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world. Throughout history there have been brave men and women who dared to go where few had gone before. They broke new ground by drawing on incredible reserves of courage, fortitude and intelligence in the face of terrible adversity. Their endeavours changed the world and inspired generations. Spanning several centuries and united by the common theme of the resilience of the human spirit, this is the ultimate collection of the stories of the intrepid explorers who forged new frontiers across land, sea, skies and space. 50 incredible journeys including; * Tenzing and Hillary's conquest of Everest * Neil Armstrong's giant leap * Christopher Columbus' new world * Amelia Earhart flying the Atlantic * gold fever in the Yukon * the hunt for a man-eating leopard in India Great Expeditions includes not only some of the most famous journeys in history but also introduces many more that ought to be more widely recognised and celebrated.

Mark Steward has worked in publishing for 20 years - 17 of those with HarperCollins UK in Glasgow. Now freelance, he continues to work as a project manager, photographer, designer, editor and author of a wide variety of titles, many of which are geographically themed. These have included managing and editing UNESCO's The World's Heritage and Memory of the World, Collins' Mapping the Second World War, The Times Atlas of London and Canadian Geographic's Atlas of Canada. He currently lives in Stirling, Scotland, but, whenever possible, spends his free time in the Haute-Savoie region of France on hiking and photography trips. Mark has a degree in Geography from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a post-graduate diploma in Cartography from the University of Glasgow. Alan Greenwood has held senior editorial roles at newspapers across the United Kingdom including The Scotsman and the Birmingham Post. He is a former editor of the Helensburgh Advertiser and the scotsman.com website. Great Expeditions was his first book. He is currently a partner in a public relations firm based in Dunblane, Scotland, which specialises in renewable energy development. He lives in Perthshire with his wife and two daughters and plays rugby for Bannockburn RFC.

'Hearing of this title my heart sunk a little, a book filled with (mostly) Victorian moustache twiddling tales of derring do - or so I thought - how wrong can you be? Instead the word journey has been interpreted in its broadest sense.' - Sue Baker (Love Reading) Voted as October 2016 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. 'If you want some journey inspiration...' - Levison Wood