Masterworks of travel & exploration
Subtitle: digests of 13 great classics.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Masterworks series
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 690
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Table of contents: title: The book of Marco Polo.; title: The journal of the first voyage to America, By Christopher Columbus.; title: The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English Nation, by Richard Hakluyt. Voyages of discovery, by James Cook.; title: Travels in Tatary, Tibet and China, by É.R. Huc.; title: Commerce of the prairies, by Josiah Gregg.; title: The Oregon Trail, by Fancis Parkman.; title: Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, by A.R. Wallace.; title: Journeys and researches in South Africa, by David Livingstone.; title: Through the Dark Continent, by H.M. Stanley.; title: Travels in Arabia Deserta, by C.M. Doughty.; title: The North Pole, by R.E. Peary.; title: Little America, by R.E. Byrd.