
Dead Reckoning
About this book
Collects top nineteenth-century discovery voyage stories, including those about Fridtjof Nansen's solitary walk to the North Pole, Mary Kingsley's forays into the West African jungle, and Richard Burton's forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca.
Subjects
Voyages and travelsHistoryTravelers' writingsTravelersTravel and tourismAutobiography and memoir