The Lives of Celebrated Travellers

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The Lives of Celebrated Travellers is a three-volume anthology by British journalist and author James Augustus St. John. It contains over 30 biographies of numerous world explorers, travelers and adventurers who left their mark in the world's history with significant discoveries that changed the course of civilization. Table of Contents: Volume 1: William de Rubruquis Marco Polo Ibn Batta Leo Africanus Pietro della Valle Jean Baptiste Tavernier François Bernier Sir John Chardin Engelbert Kæmpfer Henry Maundrell Volume 2: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Dr. Thomas Shaw Frederic Hasselquist Lady Wortley Montague Richard Pococke John Bell John Ledyard George Forster James Bruce Jonas Hanway Antonio de Ulloa Volume 3: Mungo Park Peter Simon Pallas Carsten Niebuhr Choiseul-Gouffier John Lewis Burckhardt Volney Edward Daniel Clarke François le Vaillant Belzoni Dominique Vivant Denon Reginald Heber

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