Barrow's Boys
Subtitle: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: April 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780802137944
Subjects: History - Military / War; Military - Naval; Great Britain; Exploration; History; Military - General; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; General; World - General; British; Discoveries in geography; Explorers
First sentence: 'To what purpose could a portion of our naval force be, at any time, but more especially in time of profound peace, more honourably or more usefully employed than in completing those details of geographical and hydrographical science of which the grand outlines have been boldly and broadly sketched by Cook, Vancouver and Flinders, and others of our countrymen?'