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Offers excerpts from first-hand accounts of expeditions to some of the world's remotest locations during the great age of exploration, including Burton's search for the source of the Nile and Robert Scott's tragic final expedition in Antarctica
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The Permanent Book of Exploration
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Carroll and Graf, Inc., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0786700343
ISBN 13: 9780786700349
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THE PERMANENT BOOK OF EXPLORATION : Classic Accounts of the Great Stories of Human Endeavour
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Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, NY, 1993
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ISBN 13: 9780786700349
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW, & showing trace margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light edge wear. Anthology of original first-hand narratives of pioneer adventurers who marked a great age of exploration. The travel accounts are grouped geographically: 1, Siberia & Alaska; 2, Central & South Asia; 3. Arabia; 4, West Africa; 5, East & Central Africa; 5, Australia; 6, North America; 6, South America; 7, Artic; and, 8, Antarctic. Seller Inventory # 008803
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