Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800 Katie Arnold Alcott Slip Lead Large Red

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Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood

Whedon is a poet of historical juxtaposition: in The Peacocks we meet both trumpet player Chet Baker and Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio on a lonely beach outside Naples

Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800 Katie Arnold Alcott Slip Lead Large RedRichard 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