The mammoth book of travel in dangerous places
By: edited by John Keay ; with a foreword by Wilfred Thesiger
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: The mammoth book of; Mammoth book of
Publisher: Robinson; Running Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9781849013116; 9780762438457
Subjects: Explorers; Biography
Other titles: Travel in dangerous places; Robinson book of exploration.
Notes: Previous ed. published as: The Robinson book of exploration. London : Robinson, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Siberia and Alaska:; title: Stranded on Bering Island  -- Georg Wilhelm Steller ;; title: The walk to Moscow  -- John Dundas Cochrane -- Central and South Asia:; title: Alarms amongst the Uzbeks  -- Alexander Burnes ;; title: On the roof of the world  -- John Wood ;; title: Lhasa beckons  -- Regis-Evariste Huc ;; title: Exploring Angkhor  -- Henri Mouhot ;; title: Over the Karakorams  -- Francis Edward Younghusband ;; title: Trials in Tibet  -- Ekai Kawaguchi ;; title: At the source of the Indus  -- Sven Hedin ;; title: Everest by storm  -- Edmund Hillary -- Arabia:; title: Escape from Riyadh  -- William Gifford Palgrave ;; title: Desert days  -- Charles Montagu Doughty ;; title: The point of return  -- Harry St. John Bridger Philby ;; title: To the empty quarter for a drink of water -- Wilfred Thesiger; title: West Africa:; title: Alone in Africa  -- Mungo Park ;; title: The road to Kano  -- Hugh Clapperton ;; title: Down the Niger  -- Richard Lander ;; title: Arrival in Timbuktu  -- Heinrich Barth ;; title: My Ogowé fans  -- Mary Kingsley -- East and Central Africa:; title: Among the Sudanese  -- James Bruce ;; title: Not the source of the Nile  -- Richard Francis Burton ;; title: A glimpse of Lake Victoria  -- John Hanning Speke ;; title: The reservoir of the Nile  -- Samuel White Baker ;; title: Last days  -- David Livingstone ;; title: Encounters on the Upper Congo  -- Henry Morton Stanley ;; title: A novice at large  -- Joseph Thomson -- Australia:; title: Landfall at Botany Bay  -- James Cook ;; title: Escape from the Outback  -- Charles Sturt ;; title: Death at Coopers Creek  -- William John Wills ;; title: To see the sea -- John McDouall Stuart; title: North America:; title: First crossing of America  -- Alexander Mackenzie ;; title: Meeting the Shoshonee  -- Meriwether Lewis -- South America:; title: Eating dirt in Venezuela  -- Alexander von Humboldt ;; title: Iron rations in Amazonia  -- Henry Savage Landor ;; title: The discovery of Machu Picchu  -- Hiram Bingham -- Arctic:; title: Four years in the ice  -- John Ross ;; title: Living off lichen and leather  -- John Franklin ;; title: Adrift on an Arctic ice floe  -- Fridtjof Nansen ;; title: The pole is mine  -- Robert Edwin Peary -- Antarctic:; title: Farthest south  -- Ernest Henry Shackleton ;; title: The pole at last  -- Roald Amundsen ;; title: In extremis -- Robert Falcon Scott.