The Discoverers

The Discoverers is the history of man's unquenchable thirst for knowledge - knowledge about the outside world, but also about himself, his body, his mind, his social behavior.

In this extraordinary book, Daniel Boorstin follows man on his intellectual quest that led him across distant seas to unknown continents, that took him to the core of matter and brought him into contact with the firmament and the dark regions of the subconscious.

For Boorstin, the development of science and the expansion of our knowledge is not a boring story, but a fascinating adventure in which man, despite many setbacks, always finds the strength to broaden his horizons.