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It's a seemingly smaller planet we inhabit these days, a world in which
there's hardly an unexplored square inch left (or from which you can't surf the
World Wide Web or cell-phone a friend). Classic Exploration Stories returns us
to a time when there were places still to be discovered, when brave travellers
could venture into uncharted regions. Among the sources from which editor
Stephen Brennan has selected excerpts for this stirring anthology are: The
Voyages of St. Brendan; The Icelandic Sagas; The Travels of Marco Polo; The
Voyages of Jacques Cartier; Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle; The Life of
Captain Mathew; Flinders; The Perry Expedition To Japan; Edward S. Ellis's The
Life of Kit Carson; Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad; Fridtjof Nansen's
Farthest North; Ernest Shackleton's South; Richard Harding Davis's Real
Soldiers of Fortune A collection of exploration stories includes contributions by Charles
Darwin, Ernest Scott, John Wesley Powell, Ernest Shackleton, Richard Hardin
Davis, J. T. Headley, Marco Polo, Fridtjof Nansen, and many others.
Original.
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Classic Exploration Stories: Enthralling Accounts of Journeys of Discovery
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