Dead Reckoning PB 564 Pages

DEAD RECKONING TALES OF THE GREAT EXPLORERS 1800 - 1900

This definitive collection contains thirty-two stories from the most compelling adventurers of the century: Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Richard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca and more.