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Through travelogues and personal accounts, Jasen Boko describes South America – a continent of contrasts, passion and unrest. Combining history, culture and personal reflections, he searches for what it means to be “at home” in the world.
The book contains diaries from three voyages across the Pacific Ocean undertaken by the English navigator James Cook in the second half of the 18th century, discovering and exploring its coasts and making maps of newly discovered areas.
The book "Unknown Africa" (1966) by John Gunther is a travelogue-documentary work in which the author explores the African continent during a period of great political and social change, especially after decolonization.
Prose about time travel – a book about the sea, the river and the lake. The sea is the ocean of R.L. Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Captain Frederic Marryat and today's adventurers, the river is the January River (Rio de Janeiro), and the lake is Parima, where
The book contains three Latin reports by the Croatian Jesuit, nobleman and explorer Ivan Rattkay (Ratkaj, 1647–1683), born in Ptuj (today Slovenia), sent to the provincial of the Austro-Czech Jesuit province from the mission in northern Mexico.