This is a book about one of the first recorded pilgrims who climbed
Mount Sinai; it's about Amelia Earhart, the famous American aviator
whose story and disappearance continues to capture the world's
imagination. It's the story of a doomed expedition to discover the
North West Passage, and the tale of Marco Polo, who remained at the
court of the Kublai Khan for an incredible 17 years. 'Great
Explorers' brings to life the pioneers in aviation flying thousands
of miles with the most basic of maps in open cock-pits, exposed to
the elements and the unrelenting smell of petrol fumes. They travel
by steamboat, on horse-back, by rickshaw, motorbike, train, swim
with piranhas, embark into black nothingness in new space craft,
explore by jeep, yachts, tea boats and elephants, disguise
themselves as men, take canoes and use innovative, advanced
technological scuba equipment. Going where in many cases, no man or
woman had ever gone before, some women featured in 'Great
Explorers' were often denied respect, acknowledgement or
recognition and they determined to break the 'mens club' mentality
of global exploration from which they were excluded. Marco Polo:
"This desert is reported to be so long that it would take a year to
go from end to end; and at the narrowest point it takes a month to
cross it. It consists entirely of mountains and sands and valleys.
There is nothing at all to eat."
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