Classic Exploration Stories: Enthralling Accounts of Journeys of Discovery - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592282857 ISBN 13: 9781592282852

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2004

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

Synopsis:

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

From the Back Cover:

To boldly go where no one has gone before. That's the theme of Classic Exploration Stories. Editor Stephen Brennan invites us to return to bygone days when brave travelers could yet venture into uncharted regions.
With Contributions from: Francis Parkman, James Boswell, Earnest Scott,
Charles Darwin, John S. Sewall, Edward S. Ellis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Mark Twain, Hon. J. T. Headley, Richard Harding Davis

About this edition

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592282857
• ISBN 13: 9781592282852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Brennan Stephen Vincent