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Title:

Dead reckoning : great adventure writing from the golden age of exploration, 1800-1900 / edited by Helen Whybrow.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

566 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Voyages and travels--History--19th century.
Travelers--History--19th century.
Travelers' writings.

Other Authors:

Whybrow, Helen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-566).

Contents:

From The Malay Archipelago / Alfred Russel Wallace. From The exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons / John Wesley Powell -- From Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada / Clarence King -- From Furthest North / Fridtjof Nansen -- From In the Lena Delta / George Wallace Melville -- From Tent life in Siberia / George Kennan -- From Voyage of the beagle / Charles Darwin -- From The Malay Archipelago / Alfred Russel Wallace.
From Alfred F. Mummery's my climbs in the Alps and Caucasus / Mary Mummery. From An account of the Crossing of the Continent of Australia / William John Wills -- From Voyage of the Liberdade / Joshua Slocum -- From Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr.-- From The cruise of the Cachalot / Frank Thomas Bullen -- From Travels witha donkey in the Cévennes / Robert Lewis Stevenson -- From Alfred F. Mummery's my climbs in the Alps and Caucasus / Mary Mummery.
and Across Asia on a bicycle / William Lewis Sachtleben. From The Oregon Trail / Francis Parkman -- From Roughing it / Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) -- From The lure of the labrador wild / Dillon Wallace -- From The ascent of Mount St. Elias / Filippo De Filippi -- From The venturesome voyages of Captain Voss / John Claus Voss -- From Across Asia on a bicycle / Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr. and William Lewis Sachtleben.
From Travels in West Africa / Mary Kingsley. From In the forbidden land / Henry Savage Landor -- From The ascent of the Matterhorn / Edward Whymper -- From Travels in Alaska / John Muir -- From The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau -- From A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird -- From Travels in West Africa / Mary Kingsley.
From My life as an explorer / Sven Hedin. From Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan / John L. Stephens -- From My life as an explorer / Sven Hedin.

Series:

Outside books

ISBN:

9780393010541 (hardcover)
0393010546 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2002010867

Locations:

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)