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Vintage 1987 Into The Story Of Exploration Nat Geo Black HC History Book
Dust jacket shows moderate shelf and handling wear with scattered surface scuffs, finish rubbing, and edge wear including small chips and short tears at the spine ends and corners as shown. Front and back panels display gloss loss, light scratches, and a few small spots, and the front inner flap carries a light horizontal crease. Lower fore-edge corners show rubbing with small nicks, while the brown decorative boards beneath remain clean and structurally sound. Outer page edges exhibit slight age toning, but the interior pages in the sections examined are bright, fully legible, and securely bound with the spine tight and square.
Title: Into the Unknown: The Story of Exploration.
Authors: Jonathan B. Tourtellot (editor) with Mary R. Dickson, Edward Luedtke, Elizabeth L. Newhouse, Robert M. Poole, David E. Robinson, and Margaret Sedeen.
Format: Vintage 1987 large-format illustrated hardcover nonfiction history and travel picture book with dust jacket.
Publisher and imprint: National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Publication details: First edition, copyright 1987; published in the United States in the English language.
Language: English.
Genre and subject: World history, geography, exploration narratives, explorers, scientific discovery, and global travel.
Overview: Traces the story of human exploration from ancient voyagers and overland caravans to polar expeditions, deep-sea dives, and the first journeys into space, combining narrative essays with profiles of major explorers and their achievements.
Contents highlights: Organized into themed chapters such as Early Quests, To Cross the Seven Seas, The Golden Americas, By Trail and Stream, West Meets East, A Sea So Vast, Fatal Africa, The Last Wildernesses, The Call of the Ice, Into the Deeps, and Out of the Cradle, with sidebars on individual explorers including Pytheas, Leif Eriksson, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernán Cortés, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Marco Polo, Charles Darwin, Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, William Beebe, and the Apollo astronauts.
Illustrations and design: Features a rich mix of full-color paintings, archival engravings, documentary photographs, maps, charts, and double-page spreads that depict ships, caravans, indigenous cultures, natural landscapes, and modern exploration technology, laid out in a single-column text with image captions.
Physical details: Black pictorial dust jacket showing a model sailing ship, globe, hourglass, compass, and map against a starry sky; brown cloth-covered boards beneath with gilt compass-rose border design on the front cover; cream endpapers and high-quality coated interior paper.
Intended audience: Young adult and adult readers interested in the history of exploration, geography, National Geographic pictorial histories, and visually rich reference works on explorers and discovery.
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