Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900
Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900
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Book Description
"Something to please every shade of taste for armchair adventure."-Booklist, Top 10 Literary Travel Books
Richard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo with the Sioux in the Black Hills. This remarkable collection contains stories from the most compelling and celebrated odysseys of the century, some of them long-forgotten classics of their time. From polar navigation to the search for the source of the Nile to the first crossing of the Himalayas to a quest for the origin of species, this book ranges the globe and captures the restlessness of the human spirit. 22 illustrations.
About the Author
Helen Whybrow lives in Waitsfield, Vermont. Her other collections include Our Land, Ourselves: Readings on People and Place.
Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900,Helen Whybrow,W. W. Norton & Company,0393326535,Essays,Essays & Travelogues,Expeditions & Discoveries,History,History - General History,History: World,World - General,Travel writing,c 1800 to c 1900
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