Great Adventures and Explorations
Subtitle: From the Earliest Times to the Present As Told by the Explorers Themselves
Contributors: Olive Rathbun Wilcox (Collaborator); Richard Edes Harrison (Contributor); Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9781417990900
Subjects: TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; History; Travel - General; History: World; General; Essays; Special Interest - Adventure
First sentence: THE ANNALS of geographic discovery must start with how the subtropics found the Arctic, for speculation is futile as to which of the Old World continents-Europe, Asia, Africa-discovered the others.