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'Beyond the Known is an engaging, full-colour route map showing us how we got here, and where we’re now destined to go.'
— Tim Marshall, author of the bestselling Prisoners of Geography
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'In Beyond the Known Andrew Rader achieves something almost as ambitious as the pioneers he writes about: he retraces the 10,000-year history of exploration, from the Stone Age to the Space Age, in a single book-sized expedition. As the centuries flew by, I learned something new on every page.'
— Ken Jennings, New York Times bestselling author of Maphead
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'Scintillating, coruscating, Beyond the Known shows just how powerful the human urge to travel, to explore, to move always has been and always will be. It is a light on the past - and for the future.'
— Anthony Pagden, author of The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters
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'Andrew Rader’s Beyond the Known is a smashing narrative about the history, the promise, and the innately human drive to explore, from antiquity to today to the coming Star Trek era. I could not put it down!'
— Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons Mission
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'Has an air of authority as well as a lively pace….Good scientific speculation that will leave readers yearning to see how it turns out. An astute - and highly flattering - view of human aspirations.'
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