- Hardcover: 800 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; 1st edition (21 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571206964
- ISBN-13: 978-0571206964
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.6 x 6.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 733,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
What is an explorer? What do Scott and Amundsen, Stanley and Livingstone, Burton and Speke, Columbus and Cortes, Lewis and Clark, Captain Cook and Marco Polo have in common?Bendedict Allen's anthology of human exploration brings vividly to life what it feels like to walk off the edge of the known world; to emerge - dazed, dying yet triumphant - from the Amazon jungle; to stand on the roof of the world. Through the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to bring this 'unknown' back to their people, the places themselves seem to speak. This volume ranges across various terrain - hot and cold deserts, mountains and plains, jungles and high seas - bringing together Vikings and missionaries, conquistadors and botanists, to name but a few among an array of unlikely travelling companions, whose description of their experiences will help us to understand and appreciate what kind of attributes make a true 'explorer'. Ian Hamilton once observed, 'The age of adventure is far from dead so long as people like Benedict Allen tread the earth'. Whatever you call him - traveller, modern-day explorer or adventurer - there is no doubting Benedict Allen's voracious appetite for exploration, and as such he is our ideal guide across these extraordinary pages.
About the Author
Benedict Allen is one of the UK's most prominent explorers. For the past twenty-five years he has conducted solo expeditions through the Amazon jungle, along Namibia's Skeleton Coast and across Mongolia's Gobi Desert without the use of GPS, satellite phone or other means of outside support, as we as having written ten books of his adventures and editing The Faber Book of Exploration. He was the first explorer to bring the full experience of remote travel to television - taking the genre to its limits by not using a camera crew and so bringing an immediacy to his experiences. Allen regularly gives lectures at the Royal Geographic Society.
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspirational,
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This review is from: The Faber Book of Exploration: An Anthology of Worlds Revealed by Explorers Through the Ages (Hardcover)
Compulsive reading from cover to cover. A chance to see a forgotten world through the eyes of some of histories greatest explorers. Benedict Allen has chosen carefully to provide the reader with a varied mix of first hand accounts of travel and discovery. Some of the most interesting readings come from those nameless assistants to the great explorers - the deck hands and the sailors for example. Their writing gives you a real feel for the fear, excitement and hardship experienced by raw recruits, often press ganged into an unwanted journey into the unknown. The book takes you to a time when the world was a much bigger place, where navigation was as much faith as judgement, and where everyday brought new discoveries. A welcome change from 'quirky' travel books. Allens own experiences show that opportunity still exists for the determined adventurer.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing book, deserves to be bigger so I'm swapping for the hardback,
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This review is from: The Faber Book of Exploration (Paperback)
I found this fascinating, what an amazing book.
Content 5 stars, text size 1 star - the print size is hard work, the text has had to be crammed into the paperback version. As this is one I want to keep on my bookshelf, I've decided to swap it for the larger hardback.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely wonderful ... and the font size is perfectly normal,
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This review is from: The Faber Book of Exploration (Paperback)
The selection of extracts from diaries, journals etc is compendious and wonderfully broad in its scope. As for the ludicrous criticism of the font size, I can only think that the particular curmudgeon has glaucoma or cataracts, as the font size of the actual extracts is exactly that of any normal work of fiction or non-fiction. The short headers to each entry, in the smaller script, is still to this middle-aged reader eminently decipherable, without some magnifying monocle hanging from his myopic eyes being called upon to assist. A really terrific anthology. Really terrific.
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