{"product_id":"explorers-a-new-history-9781324073871","title":"Explorers: A New History","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange. Familiar icons of exploration like Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook find new company in the untold stories of people usually denied the title \"explorers,\" including immigrants, indigenous interpreters, local guides, and fugitive slaves. He highlights female voyagers like Gudrid Far-Traveler and Freydís Eiríksdóttir, Viking women who sailed to North America in 1000 AD, and Mary Wortley Montagu, whose pioneering travels to Constantinople would lead to the development of the world's first smallpox vaccine. Figures like Ghulam Rassul Galwan, a guide for European travelers in the Himalayas, reveal the hidden labor, expertise, and local enthusiasm behind many grand stories of discovery. Other characters, like David Dorr, a man born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe and Egypt, embody discovery and wonder as universal parts of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Lockwood makes clear, people of every background imagine new worlds. Adventurers from every corner of the globe search for the unknown and try to understand it, remaking the world and themselves in the process. Exploration is for everyone who sets off into the unknown. It is the inheritance of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLockwood, Matthew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Lockwood\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama and the author of \u003cem\u003eThis Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTo Begin the World Over Again\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Conquest of Death\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Northport, Alabama.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874570146066,"sku":"9781324073871","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bc10563e-41f8-423c-8d02-24f86fccee1b.jpg?v=1754898946","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/explorers-a-new-history-9781324073871","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}