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What is Classic Exploration and Adventure: Classic Accounts of the Great Stories of Human Endeavour about?
From Captain Scott's last diary entry in the blizzards of Antarctica to Stanley struggling lost and alone through the Congo, this collection of eyewitness accounts by the great explorers and adventurers of yesterday presents the opening-up of the world as living history.
- Author
- John Keay; Great Britain Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library; British Empire & Commonwealth Museum
- Publisher
- Robinson ; : Harper Collins
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781854872401
- Subjects
- Travel, Biography, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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