The Exploration Treasury (RGS (with IGB))

📒 From its founding in 1830, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) became the institution to which travellers and explorers of many nationalities came for advice and recognition. Over the years it amassed a wealth of paintings and photographs, maps and official accounts. Covering the first hundred years of the Society's existence and a period of intense scientific exploration into unfamiliar and unknown regions of the globe, this book celebrates a series of distinguished expeditions through the visual material created by official artists and photographers, expedition teams and solitary travellers.

Alongside famous explorers such as Livingstone, Amundsen and Shackleton, are travellers such as David Roberts in Egypt and Isabella Bird in China. Other chapters cover the work of archaeologists - including Aurel Stein's excavations along the Silk Road and
Alfred Maudslay's documentation of Mayan ruins in Central America - and the desert exploits of colonial administrators, diplomats and scientists, such as William Shakespear and Ralph Bagnold. Each chapter is complemented with one or two outstanding prints that can be framed, all presented in a beautiful collector's box.