History of the World in Photographs Hardcover: 1850 to the present days (Su CD)

Illuminating Encyclopaedia Britannica's texts are thousands of photographs, as well as drawings and paintings, from the unparalleled collection of Gety Images. Rare portraits of such luminaries as Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Darwin, Herbert Kitchener, Stirling Moss, and Kurt Cobain share the page with the most unforgettable moments in history including the Charge of the Ligjt Brigade (1854), ernest Shacjkleton's attempt to reach the South Pole (1909), the landing in Normandy on D-Day (1944), and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997).