The Exploration Treasury Amazing Journeys Around the World in Rare Artworks and Prints, Maps and Personal Narratives (Make It)

Description

hard bound, 176pages, with 40 frameable prints, with many coloured illustrations.
ISBN 978-0-23300-475-4.

From its founding in 1830, the Royal Geographical Society became the institution to which travellers and explorers of many nationalities came for advice and recognition. Over the years it amassed a wealth of paintings, photographs, maps, and official accounts. Covering the first century of the Society’s existence and a period of intense scientific exploration into unfamiliar and unknown regions of the globe, this treasury celebrates a series of distinguished expeditions through the visual material created by official artists, photographers, expedition teams, and solitary travelers. Alongside famous explorers such as Livingstone, Scott and Shackleton, and Nansen and Amundsen, are travellers such as David Roberts in Egypt and Isabella Bird in China. Other chapters cover the work of archaeologists – including Aurel Stein’s excavations along the Silk Road and Alfred Maudslay’s documentation of Mayan ruins in Central America—and the desert exploits of colonial administrators, diplomats, and scientists, such as William Shakespeare and Ralph Bagnold. Each chapter is complemented with one or two outstanding prints that can be framed, all presented in a beautiful collector’s box.