100 Great Travellers

46 hrs. 7 min.

Popular Science

Language Russian

Author Igor Muromov

Narrator Leonid Derkach

Description

Since ancient times, people have been drawn to faraway and mysterious lands, legends of fabulous treasures, tales of a “golden age,” news about a happy and just life “beyond the horizon.” Already in ancient states, rulers and commanders equipped expeditions to search for new sea and land routes, sending armies to conquer tribes and peoples of “unknown lands.” Later, kings and sultans, merchants and scientific communities tried to push back the boundaries of the known world and look into distant corners of the planet. But not all of the desperate sailors and land explorers returned to their hearths.

This book tells about the discoveries and amazing fates of great travelers and explorers from different epochs and countries. Among the heroes you will meet Herodotus and Strabo, Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, Afanasy Nikitin and Francisco Pizarro, Hernán Cortés and Ermak, Yerofey Khabarov and Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Nikolai Przhevalsky and Miklouho-Maclay, Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Herodotus
• Zhang Qian
• Strabo
• Fa Xian
• Ahmed ibn Fadlan
• Al-Garnati Abu Hamid
• Tudelsky Benjamin
• Carpini Giovanni del Plano
• Rubruck Guillaume (William)
• Polo Marco
• Odorico Matìush
• Ibn Battuta Abu Abdallah Muhammad
• Varthema Lodovico di
• Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazan (Leo Africanus)
• Nikitin Afanasy
• Balboa Vasco Núñez de
• Pizarro Francisco
• Cortés Hernán
• Coronado Francisco Vásquez de
• Soto Hernando de
• Orellana Francisco de
• Quesada Gonzalo Jiménez de
• Ermak Timofeyevich
• Xu Xiā-ké
• Champlain Samuel
• La Salle René Robert Cavelier de
• Moskvitin Ivan Yuryevich
• Poyarkov Vasily Danilovich
• Khabarov Yerofey Pavlovich
• Atlasov Vladimir Vasilyevich
• Krasheninnikov Stepan Petrovich
• Laxmann Erik (Kirill)
• Niebuhr Carsten
• Mackenzie Alexander
• Badia y Leblich Domingo
• Zetsen Ulrich Gaspar (Jasper)
• Humboldt Alexander
• Lewis Merewether
• Hornemann Friedrich Conrad
• Mungo Park
• Sannikov Yakov
• Burckhardt Ludwig
• Clapperton Hugh
• Lander Richard
• Mitchell Thomas
• Shirvani Gadzhi Zeynalabdin
• Wrangel Ferdinand Petrovich
• Anjou Peter Fyodorovich
• Lange Alexander Gordon
• Sturt Charles
• Stzelecki Pavel Edmund
• Caillé (Coilée) Auguste René
• Schomburgk Robert Hermann
• Chichatshev Pyotr Alexandrovich
• Leihgardt Ludwig
• Livingstone David
• Kovalevsky Egor Petrovich
• Middendorf Alexander Fyodorovich
• Eyr Edward John
• Burton Richard Francis
• Speke John Hanning
• Baker Samuel White
• Burke Robert O'Hara
• Barth Heinrich
• Walin Georg August
• Guarmani Carlo
• Severtsov Nikolai Alekseevich
• Wissmann Hermann Wilhelm
• Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Pyotr Petrovich
• Reclus Jean Jacques Elisée
• Rolfus Gerhard
• Vambery Arminius
• Chekanovsky Alexander Lavrentevich
• Przhevalsky Nikolai Mikhailovich
• Potanin Grigoriy Nikolaevich
• Chersky Ivan Dementievich
• Schweinfurth Georg August
• Juncker Vasily (Wilhelm) Vasilievich
• Stanley Henry Morton
• Pevtsov Mikhail Vasilievich
• Fedchenko Aleksey Pavlovich
• Cameron Verny Lovett
• Miklouho-Maclay Nikolai Nikolaevich
• Musketov Ivan Vasilievich
• Peary Robert Edwin
• Cook Frederick Albert
• Tull Édouard V. (Eduard Vasilyevich)
• Roborovsky Vsevolod Ivanovich
• Kozlov Pyotr Kuzmich
• Obruchev Vladimir Afanasyevich
• Grumm-Grzhimailo Grigory Efimovich
• Fawcett Percy
• Arsenyev Vladimir Klavdievich
• Amundsen Roald
• Scott Robert Falcon
• Shackleton Ernest Henry
• Sedov Georgiy Yakovlevich
• Stefansson Vilhjalmur
• Rasmussen Knud Johan Victor
• Mawson Douglas
• Bibliography
• Contents