Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by Fleming, Fergus

Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

On John Franklin's 1820 expedition to find the North-West Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and...
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Author: Fergus Fleming
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Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by Fleming, Fergus

Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

€26,86

Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

€26,86
Author: Fergus Fleming
Format: Paperback
Language: English
On John Franklin's 1820 expedition to find the North-West Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene la Salle set off for the Mississippi Delta in 1684, he missed the target by five hundred miles, but on landing immediately built a prison for those who fell asleep on watch. Consummate storyteller Fergus Fleming brings together these and forty-three other gripping stories in Off the Map.

Spanning three ages of exploration, it is a uniquely accessible and supremely entertaining history of adventure and endeavor. Off the Map recounts episodes both classic and forgotten: the "classics" are brought to life in more vivid colors than ever before; the lesser-known stories offer accounts of feats that are no less heroic or extraordinary but have long lain hidden in the undergrowth of history. From the Renaissance golden age of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan to the twentieth-century heroics of polar explorers such as Peary, Scott, and Amundsen, this is an unforgettable journey into the annals of adventure.


Author: Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 06/12/2006
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.66w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780802142726


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/20/2006 pg. 20
Kliatt 11/01/2006 pg. 40
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 85

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