Description
Author: John Hemming, ISBN: 9781862051539, Hardcover, Published in 1998, 192 pages, ENGLISH TEXT
In celebration of Land Rover 50th Anniversary and 21 years of Land Rover association with the Royal Geographical Society.
We are living in the golden age of exploration and discovery. In the last fifty years the frontiers of our knowledge have been expanded as never before in human history. Exciting discoveries are being made, leading to global-scale theories that change our understanding of the earth and its climate: plate tectonics and the causes of earthquakes, desertification, the hole in the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect. These important discoveries have been made possible by better communications, improved equipment and clothing and the use of satellites, as well as the skill, determination and courage of modern explorers.
In every major expedition, it is likely to have been a Land Rover that transported the scientists and explorers over some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth.This book is published to celebrate fifty years of Land Rover vehicles, describing the adventures, dangers and hardships of modern scientific explorations, and the aims and achievements of the men and women who are today's pioneers. Expeditions are examined in detail, showing the human dimension as well as the role technology and specialised vehicles have played in recent discoveries.
John Hemming's informed and accessible text is accompanied by remarkable photographs from around the world, some taken on the expeditions themselves, along with diagrams, satellite and computer-generated images.
