Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World

Obregon, Mauricio

ISBN 10: 0679463267 / ISBN 13: 9780679463269

Verlag: Random House, 2001

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers E-9780679463269-4-2

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Recreates the legendary voyages by ancient mariners and retraces the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, and Viking explorers, and the spread of the Polynesians throughout the Pacific.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Mauricio Obregón was a Colombian ambassador to the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the O.A.S. He was founder and president of the Caribbean Naval Museum in Cartagena, and a member of the academies of history of Colombia and of Spain. <br><br>He retraced, under sail and in the air, fourteen voyages of discovery and followed space flights from the NASA control center. He held the Chair of History of Discovery at the University of the Andes, Bogota, of which he was president, and lectured at universities worldwide, from Harvard (where he was elected to its Board of Overseers) to Dubrovnik.<br><br>In addition to publishing a dozen books, including <b>The Caribbean as Columbus Saw It</b>, he narrated the international TV series <i>Columbus</i> and the <i>Age of Discovery</i>, was a test-flight captain at

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Titel: Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Sailing with ...
Verlag: Random House
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very good