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Dead Reckoning

by Helen Whybrow

Voyages and travelsHistoryTravelers' writingsTravelersTravel and tourismAutobiography and memoir

Collects top nineteenth-century discovery voyage stories, including those about Fridtjof Nansen's solitary walk to the North Pole, Mary Kingsley's forays into the West African jungle, and Richard Burton's forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Book data: Open Library