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Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Basically, how did humans go from an origination point in one part of Africa to populate almost the entire globe, all long before the history of any kind of writing. Almost all long before Western European exploration. That's this book. Fascinating read.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.