Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800 David McCullough and ancient texts

and ancient texts

portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers

They dig a pond

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Harding and his wife

Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800 David McCullough and ancient textsRichard 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