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Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900 (Paperback)

Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900 By Helen Whybrow (Editor) Cover Image
By Helen Whybrow (Editor)
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"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. "What emerges again and again in the writings Whybrow has compiled are not the ways in which an explorer destroys or inflates or distorts but the ways an explorer comes to see."—Edward Rothstein, New York Times

About the Author


Helen Whybrow lives in Waitsfield, Vermont. Her other collections include Our Land, Ourselves: Readings on People and Place.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780393326536
ISBN-10: 0393326535
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: March 17th, 2005
Pages: 568
Language: English
Series: Outside Books

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