History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Follow in the footsteps of history's most ambitious and influential explorers from antiquity through the space age in this captivating course taught by a top-rated professor.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Earliest Explorers
- 02: The Scientific Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
- 03: St. Brendan-The Travels of an Irish Monk
- 04: Xuanzang's Journey to the West
- 05: Leif Eriksson the Lucky
- 06: Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville
- 07: Ibn Battuta-Never the Same Route Twice
- 08: Portugal's Great Leap Forward
- 09: The Enigmatic Christopher Columbus
- 10: Magellan and the Advent of Globalization
- 11: The Ruthless Ambition of the Conquistadors
- 12: Henry Hudson-Death on the Ice
- 13: The Jesuits on a Global Mission
- 14: Captain Cook Maps the World
- 15: Alexander von Humboldt-Explorer Genius
- 16: Jefferson Dispatches Lewis and Clark
- 17: Sir John Franklin's Epic Disaster
- 18: Ida Pfeiffer-Victorian Extreme Traveler
- 19: Japan Discovers the West
- 20: Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa
- 21: Arctic Feats and Fates
- 22: Antarctic Rivalries
- 23: A Deep-Sea Dive into the Mariana Trench
- 24: The Race to Outer Space
Taught by
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
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