The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Australia

  By John Keay

  With little support or fuss he began probing north from Adelaide in the late 1850's. In 1860 he was the first to reach the centre of the continent, thus completing the work of Sturt.

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America

  By John Keay

  John Keay. THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF TRAVELIN DANGEROUS PLACES South America | The Mammoth Book of TRAVEL IN DANGEROUS PLACES PRESENTS South. Front Cover.

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places

  By John Keay

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Central and South Asia

  By John Keay

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: North America

  By John Keay

  First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie "Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an enterprising spirit", Mackenzie, a Scot engaged in the Canadian fur trade, resolved, as he out it "to test the practicability of penetrating ...

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Siberia and Alaska

  By John Keay

  The Walk to Moscow - John Dundas Cochrane A naval officer made redundant by the end of the Napoleonic wars, Cochrane offered his services to African exploration. They were declined.

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arabia

  By John Keay

  Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised when in 1862-3, fortified by Pius IX's ...

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Antarctic

  By John Keay

  Farthest South - Ernest Henry Shackleton Born in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica.

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: East and Central Africa

  By John Keay

  A Glimpse of Lake Victoria - John Hanning Speke In July 1858, while returning from Lake Tanganyika with Burton, Speke made a solo excursion to the north in search of an even larger lake reported by an Arab informant.

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: West Africa

  By John Keay

  Down the Niger - Richard Lander As Clapperton's manservant, Lander attended his dying master on his 1825 expedition to the Niger and was then commissioned, with his brother John, to continue the exploration of the river.

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  The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arctic

  By John Keay

  ... The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places (Robinson, 2010). “Four Yearsin the Ice”, JohnRoss. Taken from Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search ofa NorthWest Passage (A. W. Webster, 1835) “Living off Lichen and Leather”, John ...