An edition of The mammoth book of travel in dangerous places
(2010)
The mammoth book of travel in dangerous places
Rev. ed.
by John Keay
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The mammoth book of travel in dangerous places
2010, Robinson, Running Press
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Table of Contents
Siberia and Alaska:
Stranded on Bering Island -- Georg Wilhelm Steller ;
The walk to Moscow -- John Dundas Cochrane -- Central and South Asia:
Alarms amongst the Uzbeks -- Alexander Burnes ;
On the roof of the world -- John Wood ;
Lhasa beckons -- Regis-Evariste Huc ;
Exploring Angkhor -- Henri Mouhot ;
Over the Karakorams -- Francis Edward Younghusband ;
Trials in Tibet -- Ekai Kawaguchi ;
At the source of the Indus -- Sven Hedin ;
Everest by storm -- Edmund Hillary -- Arabia:
Escape from Riyadh -- William Gifford Palgrave ;
Desert days -- Charles Montagu Doughty ;
The point of return -- Harry St. John Bridger Philby ;
To the empty quarter for a drink of water -- Wilfred Thesiger
West Africa:
Alone in Africa -- Mungo Park ;
The road to Kano -- Hugh Clapperton ;
Down the Niger -- Richard Lander ;
Arrival in Timbuktu -- Heinrich Barth ;
My Ogowé fans -- Mary Kingsley -- East and Central Africa:
Among the Sudanese -- James Bruce ;
Not the source of the Nile -- Richard Francis Burton ;
A glimpse of Lake Victoria -- John Hanning Speke ;
The reservoir of the Nile -- Samuel White Baker ;
Last days -- David Livingstone ;
Encounters on the Upper Congo -- Henry Morton Stanley ;
A novice at large -- Joseph Thomson -- Australia:
Landfall at Botany Bay -- James Cook ;
Escape from the Outback -- Charles Sturt ;
Death at Coopers Creek -- William John Wills ;
To see the sea -- John McDouall Stuart
North America:
First crossing of America -- Alexander Mackenzie ;
Meeting the Shoshonee -- Meriwether Lewis -- South America:
Eating dirt in Venezuela -- Alexander von Humboldt ;
Iron rations in Amazonia -- Henry Savage Landor ;
The discovery of Machu Picchu -- Hiram Bingham -- Arctic:
Four years in the ice -- John Ross ;
Living off lichen and leather -- John Franklin ;
Adrift on an Arctic ice floe -- Fridtjof Nansen ;
The pole is mine -- Robert Edwin Peary -- Antarctic:
Farthest south -- Ernest Henry Shackleton ;
The pole at last -- Roald Amundsen ;
In extremis -- Robert Falcon Scott.
Edition Notes
Previous ed. published as: The Robinson book of exploration. London : Robinson, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
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