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The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany

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 | #2832160 in Books |  2009-04-28 |  2009-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.05 x6.80l,1.71 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| These eyewitness accounts are accompanied by color images to capture the sense of adventure|By Midwest Book Review|THE BOOK OF MARVELS is a collection of explorations and explorers from ancient times to the 19th century and offers accounts from their journals, ships' logs, published memoirs and more. From Herodotus to Melville, Conrad to Thoreau, these eyewitness accounts are a|About the Author|Mark Jenkins is chief historian of the National Geographic Society’s archives. Among other accomplishments, he is the author of Worlds to Explore and co-author of High Adventure.

In centuries past, undertaking a journey meant a voyage into the unknown, traveling for months or years into unexplored areas on the map where cartographers could only speculate "There be dragons." And those fortunate adventurers who made it home again always had fantastical tales to tell—even if sometimes they stretched the truth up to and beyond the breaking point.

This eclectic history of exploration sweeps from antiquity to the 1800s, encompassing ages w...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany   |  Mark Collins Jenkins. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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