Madder than the maddest scientists, eccentric travellers made exploration popular. Who could resist the naturalist who wrestled with boa constrictors, the evangelist who stomped the Hindu Kush stark naked, or the vitriolic 'Governor Gallstone' who forsook the American Indians for a horse-drawn odyssey with monkey, parakeet and long-suffering family?
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Review:
'The world loves an oddball and the seven famous eccentrics memorialized here... were very, very peculiar.' Jan Morris
Book Description:
This is a classic account of obsessives abroad. Madder than the maddest scientists, eccentric travellers made exploration popular. Who could resist the naturalist who wrestled with boa constrictors, or the evangelist who stomped the Hindu Kush stark naked?
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0719561647
- ISBN 13 9780719561641
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages219
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