The greatest exploration stories ever told : true tales of search and discovery

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910.9 Gre

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

by Brown, Darren (Editor)

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction Darren Brown	p. ix
	The Great Khan Marco Polo	p. 1
	Magellan's Voyage Round the World Antonio Pigafetta	p. 11
	Noche Triste William Prescott	p. 30
	Stuck on the Great Barrier Reef Captain James Cook	p. 42
	A Bloody Banquet James Bruce	p. 60
	An Alligator-Infested River William Bartram	p. 66
	The Search for the Niger River Mungo Park	p. 77
	Exploring the Marias Meriwether Lewis	p. 84
	John Franklin: The Man Who Ate his Boots Fergus Fleming	p. 93
	Among the Fuegians Charles Darwin	p. 108
	Climbing Fremont Peak John Charles Fremont	p. 119
	The Strain Expedition J. T. Heady	p. 132
	To the Secret City of Harar Sir Richard Francis Burton	p. 150
	Down the Amazon William Herndon	p. 173
	Livingstone in Africa David Livingstone	p. 182
	Witchcraft in West Africa Paul Du Chaillu	p. 190
	The Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke	p. 207
	A Canyon Voyage Frederick Dellenbaugh	p. 220
	Down the Congo Henry Morton Stanley	p. 234
	Land at Last Fridtjof Nansen	p. 255
	Customs of the Fan Tribe Mary Kingsley	p. 273
	The Labrador Wild Dillon Wallace	p. 281
	Butting Blindly into the Storm Robert Dunn	p. 294
	Did Peary Reach the North Pole David Roberts	p. 305
	People of the Stone Age Vilhjalmur Stefansson	p. 323
	Return From the Pole Robert Falcon Scott	p. 336
	The Ends of the Earth Roy Chapman Andrews	p. 354
	Journey to Lhasa Alexandra David-Neel	p. 364
	The Empty Quarter Wilfred Thesiger	p. 383