The Permanent Book of Exploration: Classic Accounts of the Great Stories of Human Endeavour

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786700343
• ISBN13: 9780786700349
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent collectible book, excellent gift

This book has been out of print some time, but I frequently buy them used, as it is one of the most amazing books you'll find. It is a collection of stories of real expeditions, endeavors, and the like, that were troubled, failed, and where great adversity existed. The story, "In Extremis" about Robert Scott's failed expedition in Antartica is on of the most noble testaments to that which is good in mankind -- in the most overwhelming and dire circumstance imaginable. Particularly his letters to the parents and wives of his friends who suffer the same fate. There's also a story of a ship's crew stranded on an island in the Bering straits, suffering from scurvvy, of Lewis and Clark meeting some plains indians, who are near starvation, and the story of when Livingston met Stanley. Livingston had taken ill and been robbed and abandoned by those he traveled with in a caravan, in deep africa, and along comes another Britishman! Great read. Everyone I give this book to loves it.