The Greatest Exploration Stories Ever Told: True Tales of Search and Discovery,New

The Greatest Exploration Stories Ever Told: True Tales of Search and Discovery,New

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This collection includes stories of exploration in the American interior, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, and Africa, as well as the seas and polar regions. These fascinating tales are told by the people whose bravery, determination, willpower, and strength contributed to our vast knowledge about the world.True accounts include such bold exploits as John Wesley Powell's first float through the Grand Canyon; Captain Cook's voyages through the Pacific; Marco Polo's travels to China and Mongolia; Sir Richard Francis Burton, the first Westerner to visit Mecca in disguise; Teddy Roosevelt's trip up the Amazon in Brazil; Xenophon's march of 10,000 through unexplored areas of Turkey and the Middle East; Beryl Markham's search for new elephant hunting grounds; Douglas Mawson's exploits in the Antarctic; Herodotus in ancient Egypt; the exploration of the Panama Canal route in the late 1800s; the search for the Northwest Passage; Henry Stanley finding David Livingstone in Africa; John Muir's exploration of the Sierras; Sven Hedin's travels through the deserts of the Middle and Far East; Felice Benuzzi climbing Mt. Kenya; Raymond Patterson's exploration of the Nahanni River in the Canadian interior; Charles Darwin's famous voyage of the Beagle; Roy Chapman Andrews's exploits in Korea; Jon Krakauer's solo climbing trip in Alaska; William Bartram's travels in the Southeast U.S.; and Robert Louis Stevenson in the South Pacific.

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