Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800-1900
edited by Helen Whybrow

A collection of 32 of the finest first-person accounts of geographic discovery and personal odyssey of the nineteenth century.

RIichard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo with the Sioux in the Black Hills. This remarkable collection contains stories from the most compelling and celebrated odysseys of the century, some of them long-forgotten classics of their time. From polar navigation to the search for the source of the Nile to the first crossing of the Himalayas to a quest for the origin of species, this book ranges the globe and captures the restlessness of the human spirit.

Notable authors include:

- Isabella Bird
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Richard Henry Dana
- Charles Darwin
- Sven Hedin
- George Kennan
- Clarence King
- Mary Kingsley
- Meriwether Lewis
- John Muir
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Francis Parkman
- John Wesley Powell
- Joshua Slocum
- Henry Morton Stanley
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Edward Whymper
- Francis Edward Younghusband

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