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RR 2007/158 The Seventy Great Journeys in History Edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison Thames & Hudson London 304 pp. ISBN 978 0 500 25129 4 £24.95/$40
Keywords History, Travel
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120710738418
Immaculately produced in true Thames & Hudson style, incorporating 420 superb, well chosen colour illustrations and specially commissioned maps, all blended in perfect harmony with the text and even audaciously employed to bring life to the contents pages, this historical survey of travel and exploration is a joy to handle. A total of 70 sections, each two to five pages in length, are devoted either to general chronological/geographical period surveys or else to individual travellers and explorers.
"Out of Africa (100,000-50,000 years ago)" starts the human journey: "At first, modern humans flourished only in tropical Africa, south of the Sahara Desert . . . when small groups of hunter-gatherers hunted and foraged their way across the Sahara into the Nile Valley and then Southwest Asia as early as 100,000...