Cassell's Tales of Endurance
by Fergus Fleming
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You have to be a tough nut for inclusion in Fergus Fleming's anthology of travel: no namby-pamby eulogies to ancient architecture or comical character sketches will do - this man wants you to eat a horse, then your shoes (unnecessary baggage anyway after your frostbitten toes fall off). This is travel and exploration as dogged endurance, frequently ending in death, but not necessarily a grave. On John Franklin's 1820 expedition to find the North-West Passage, Michel Teroahauté proved to be the worst kind of travelling companion: a cannibal. He ate two of the team and was just preparing a third for the table - with a bullet through the forehead - when he was caught and killed. Great read.
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Cassell's Tales of Endurance
2004, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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in English
0304357472 9780304357475
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-493) and index.
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