{"product_id":"dead-reckoning-tales-of-the-great-explorers-1800-1900-9780393326536","title":"Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo with the Sioux in the Black Hills. This remarkable collection contains stories from the most compelling and celebrated odysseys of the century, some of them long-forgotten classics of their time. From polar navigation to the search for the source of the Nile to the first crossing of the Himalayas to a quest for the origin of species, this book ranges the globe and captures the restlessness of the human spirit. \"What emerges again and again in the writings Whybrow has compiled are not the ways in which an explorer destroys or inflates or distorts but the ways an explorer comes to see.\" Edward Rothstein, New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Whybrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.52w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393326536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2005 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhybrow, Helen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eHelen Whybrow\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Waitsfield, Vermont. Her other collections include \u003cem\u003eOur Land, Ourselves: Readings on People and Place\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40658238931059,"sku":"9.78039E+12","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2a41c81a-03e4-44e8-8bf2-e9cdcc86f79e.jpg?v=1673359514","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/dead-reckoning-tales-of-the-great-explorers-1800-1900-9780393326536","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}