Off the Map - Tales of Endurance And Exploration

Covering three centuries of exploration, the author serves up forty-three tales of misadventure, from the ill-fated 1820 search for the Northwest passage that resulted in crew members eating one another to De Salle's navigation blunders. Reprint.

Product details

• Authors: Fergus Fleming
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2006
• EAN: 9780802142726
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4272-6
• No. of pages: 518
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Europe, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Expeditions: popular accounts, Father’s Day, HOLIDAY / Father's Day