Related Books

The following are books that I have found interesting about exploration. In these text, the author mentions techniques used to find one self as well as incredible historical accounts of such endeavors.

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellen's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Bergreen (2004) ISBN: 006093638X

This book is an eye witness account of Magellen's circumnavigation in search of the Spice Islands going West from Eurpoe. The eye witness was Magellen's appointed scribe. The voyage begins in 1519 with 5 ships and 260 men and ends 3 years later with 1 ghastly ship and 18 survivors--Magellen was killed in the New Guinea area in the South Pacific. An amazing story and amazing that it survivied.

Blue Latitudes, Horowitz (2003) ISBN: 0312422601

This book accounts the 3 major voyages of Captain James Cook in the South Pacific and Alaska's Bering Strait during the 1700's.

The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , Coues, ed. (1979) (Journals)

These are the written accounts by editor Elliot Coues in 1895. Before then, no solid account had been written that also had not been abridged. These volumes are Lewis and Clarke's words with copious footnotes and included maps of the expedition that lasted from 1803-1806.

**There is actually a 14 volume set that is the actual written documents by Lewis and Clarke as well as all the drawings and maps they prepared along the way.

Vol 1: ISBN: 0486212688
Vol 2: ISBN: 0486212696
Vol 3: ISBN: 048621270X

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet, Crane (2001) ISBN: 0805066241

This is a book documenting the life and times of Gerhard Mercator, the person who is responsible for what we know as the Universal Transverse Mercator projection. He was a young man at the time of Galileo and lived during the middle part of the Renaissance. Mercator also developed the mathematical concept of 'Triangulation' and created many of the instruments to make his planar maps and globes. Keep in mind that a good measure of longitude, still did not exist and wouldn't exist for another 150 years. Mercator was a child just after the Protestant Reformation and was imprisioned during the Inquisition. He is also know for the first "modern type" World Atlas.