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The Faber Book of Exploration
Allen B
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Description for The Faber Book of Exploration
Paperback. Editor(s): Allen, Benedict. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 44. Weight in Grams: 530.
What does it feel like to walk off the edge of a map? To emerge dazed, dying yet triumphant, from the Amazon? Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration ranges across various terrains - hot and cold deserts, mountains and plains, jungles and high seas - and presents the words of those who, through the centuries - be they Vikings or missionaries, conquistadors or botanists - have set off into 'the unknown'.
'Immaculately edited and shrewdly considered . . . a hugely readable compendium.' Independent on Sunday
'A monumental feat of compilation and editing, and will satisfy every armchair ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
832
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571206124
SKU
V9780571206124
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99-10
About Allen B
Benedict Allen is one of the UK's most prominent explorers. For the past twenty-five years he has conducted solo expeditions through the Amazon jungle, along Namibia's Skeleton Coast and across Mongolia's Gobi Desert without the use of GPS, satellite phone or other means of outside support, as we as having written ten books of his adventures and editing The Faber ... Read more
Reviews for The Faber Book of Exploration
'A monumental feat of compilation and editing.' Literary Review; 'Immaculately edited... hugely readable.' Independent on Sunday