Tales of Endurance offers 45 gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the history of exploration. The tales are divided between three 'ages of exploration', each of which is prefaced by a lively essay introducing key aspects of the age in question and identifying themes that will be developed in greater detail in the stories that follow. Taken together, tales and introductions amount to nothing less than a complete, uniquely accessible, and supremely entertaining history of exploration. The volume recounts ...
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Tales of Endurance offers 45 gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the history of exploration. The tales are divided between three 'ages of exploration', each of which is prefaced by a lively essay introducing key aspects of the age in question and identifying themes that will be developed in greater detail in the stories that follow. Taken together, tales and introductions amount to nothing less than a complete, uniquely accessible, and supremely entertaining history of exploration. The volume recounts tales both classic and forgotten: the 'classics' being brought to life in more vivid colours than ever before; the lesser-known tales offering accounts of feats that are no less heroic or extraordinary but which have long lain hidden in the undergrowth of history. Fleming pays due attention to the geographical, political and historical importance of the journeys in question, but also focuses attention on the explorers' characters, their relationships with their fellow explorers, their diet, health, and - in the case of lengthy maritime voyages - their often surprising leisure pursuits.From the the Renaissance golden age of Columbus, da Gama and Magellan to the 20th-century heroics of polar explorers such as Peary, Scott and Amundsen, Cassell's Tales of Endurance offers the reader an unforgettable and unputdownable collection of stories.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. Fine/Near fine. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. First UK edition-first printing. Tan hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the cover) in fine condition, with Dj(a couple of small nicks, scratch and crease on the edges of the Dj cover) in near fine condition. Illustrated with many b/w drawings, maps. Nice and clean pages as new with a very small colour mark and nick on the outer edges, a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages, very small pencil mark impression on the edge of the front endpaper. Nice and clean book as new with light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover.524pp including List of illustrations, bibliography, index. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Heavy book(approx 1.2 Kg).
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