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'A monumental feat of compilation and editing.' Literary Review; 'Immaculately edited... hugely readable.' Independent on Sunday
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What does it feel like to walk off the edge of a map? To emerge dazed, dying yet triumphant, from the Amazon? Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration ranges across various terrains - hot and cold deserts, mountains and plains, jungles and high seas - and presents the words of those who, through the centuries - be they Vikings or missionaries, conquistadors or botanists - have set off into 'the unknown'.
'Immaculately edited and shrewdly considered . . . a hugely readable compendium.' Independent on Sunday
'A monumental feat of compilation and editing, and will satisfy every armchair traveller.' Literary Review
'A generous, handsome volume, that will provide hours upon hours of absorption and revelation.' The Times
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
Format: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.
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
Format: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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