by Simon Winchester · National Geographic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482983882
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«Mundos para explorar» is the travel-writing anthology published by National Geographic, edited by Mark Jenkins and with a foreword by Simon Winchester.
It brings together 54 classic stories from an era when travel was an odyssey, from tsarist Russia to the beginnings of aviation and underwater exploration. Mark Jenkins introduces each piece with a contextualising preface, featuring correspondents and adventurers who made National Geographic famous.
Volume 490 of the «Narrativa de viajes» collection. Paperback edition, 512 pages, published in June 2007; translated by Cecilia Montesinos Montenegro and María Teresa Bosch Bolívar.
For readers of travel literature and exploration chronicles, and for those who want to discover the tradition of National Geographic and its great reportage.
Simon Winchester is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to over 30 best-selling nonfiction books, one novel, and several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.
