Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, <br/><br/>
Pathfinders :  a global history of exploration / 
Felipe Fernández-Armesto. 
 - xvii, 428 páginas :  ilustraciones (algunas a color), mapas. 
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía. 
<br/><br/>Stretching : the first trail finders from gathering cultures to great empires -- Reaching : exploring the oceans to about a thousand years ago -- Stirring : landward explorations in late antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Springing : the maritime turn of the late Middle Ages and the penetration of the Atlantic -- Vaulting : the great leap forward of the 1490s -- Girdling : connecting global routes, c.1500-c.1620 -- Connecting : global reconvergence, c.1620-c.1740 -- Deepening : enhancing the world-picture, c.1740s-c.1840s -- Globalizing : the narrowing horizon, c.1850-c.2000. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393062597 9780393062595 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Descubrimientos geográficos.<br/>Exploradores.--Historia.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.922  / F363p 2007