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"
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