The Mammoth book of explorers
By: edited by John Keay ; with a foreword by Wilfred Thesiger.
Contributors: Keay, John.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Explorers -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Explorers
Notes: Subtitle on cover: Classic first-hand accounts of exploration by David Livingstone ..."
Table of contents: title: SIBERIA AND ALASKA : Stranded on Bering Island / Georg Wilhelm Stellar; title: The walk to Moscow / John Dundas Cochrane; title: CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA : 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 Hilary; title: ARABIA : 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 : 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 / Mary Kingsley; title: EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA : 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.; title: AUSTRALIA : 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 : First crossing of America / Alexander Mackenzie; title: Meeting the Shoshonee / Meriwether Lewis; title: SOUTH AMERICA : Eating dirt in Venezuela / Alexander von Humboldt; title: Iron rations in Amazonia / Henry Savage Landor; title: The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham; title: ARCTIC : 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; title: ANTARCTIC : Farthest South / Ernest Henry Shackleton; title: The Pole at last / Roald Amundsen; title: In extremis / Robert Falcon Scott.