Did you know that the first person to circumnavigate the world was not Magellan or Elcano? Why is the Cape of Good Hope in the south of the African continent called? How far did the intrepid Vikings travel south? Who was the first aviator to cross the Atlantic solo? What was Francis Drake’s ship called? Why did the spoils of the? premium? Who was the first pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago?
The thirst for travel and curiosity are two inherent characteristics of man, always beginning with the search for new experiences or territories. While we currently associate the term travel with leisure, for centuries travel was the only way to discover remote places, test human resistance, or colonize new geographic enclaves.
Pedro Gargantilla offers us in his new work a compendium of the journeys that forever changed the paradigms of human existence and our understanding of our environment.
“Travel kills prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain
Pedro Wood Choker
Physician, writer and science communicator. Head of Internal Medicine at El Escorial Hospital and Professor of the History of Medicine at Francisco de Vitoria University. Regular contributor to RNE radio programs. He writes weekly in the digital science section of the ABC newspaper and in Clio. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Diseases of the Kings of Spain. the Austrians (2005), The diseases of the Bourbons (2007) and Diseases That Changed History (2016) in The Sphere of Books.
- Publisher: Pinolia
- Size: 15*23cm
- Binding: Rustic with flaps
- Recommended retail price: € 22.95
Source: Marie Claire
