The Greatest Exploration Stories Ever Told; True Tales of Search and Discovery

by Edited by Darren Brown

• ISBN13: 9781585747771
• ISBN10: 1585747777
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

This collection includes stories of exploration in the American interior, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, and Africa, as well as the seas and polar regions. These fascinating tales are told by the people whose bravery, determination, willpower, and strength contributed to our vast knowledge about the world. True accounts include such bold exploits as John Wesley Powell's first float through the Grand Canyon; Captain Cook's voyages through the Pacific; Marco Polo's travels to China and Mongolia; Sir Richard Francis Burton, the first Westerner to visit Mecca in disguise; Teddy Roosevelt's trip up the Amazon in Brazil; Xenophon's march of 10,000 through unexplored areas of Turkey and the Middle East; Beryl Markham's search for new elephant hunting grounds; Douglas Mawson's exploits in the Antarctic; Herodotus in ancient Egypt; the exploration of the Panama Canal route in the late 1800s; the search for the Northwest Passage; Henry Stanley finding David Livingstone in Africa; John Muir's exploration of the Sierras; Sven Hedin's travels through the deserts of the Middle and Far East; Felice Benuzzi climbing Mt. Kenya; Raymond Patterson's exploration of the Nahanni River in the Canadian interior; Charles Darwin's famous voyage of theBeagle; Roy Chapman Andrews's exploits in Korea; Jon Krakauer's solo climbing trip in Alaska; William Bartram's travels in the Southeast U.S.; and Robert Louis Stevenson in the South Pacific.

Author Biography

DARREN BROWN, freelance writer and editor, was the managing editor of Wilderness Adventures Press. He has edited several anthologies, including For the Love of a Dog and Other Stories: The Best of Vereen Bell, The Greatest Escape Stories Ever Told (page 127), and Mule Deer Secrets of the Pros (page 106). He lives in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife and two bird dogs.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Darren Brown
The Great Khan	1	(10)
Marco Polo
Magellan's Voyage Round the World	11	(19)
Antonio Pigafetta
Noche Triste	30	(12)
William Prescott
Stuck on the Great Barrier Reef	42	(18)
Captain James Cook
A Bloody Banquet	60	(6)
James Bruce
An Alligator-Infested River	66	(11)
William Bartram
The Search for the Niger River	77	(7)
Mungo Park
Exploring the Marias	84	(9)
Meriwether Lewis
John Franklin: The Man Who Ate His Boots	93	(15)
Fergus Fleming
Among the Fuegians	108	(11)
Charles Darwin
Climbing Fremont Peak	119	(13)
John Charles Fremont
The Strain Expedition	132	(18)
J. T. Heady
To the Secret City of Harar	150	(23)
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Down the Amazon	173	(9)
William Herndon
Livingstone in Africa	182	(8)
David Livingstone
Witchcraft in West Africa	190	(17)
Paul Du Chaillu
The Source of the Nile	207	(13)
John Hanning Speke
A Canyon Voyage	220	(14)
Frederick Dellenbaugh
Down the Congo	234	(21)
Henry Morton Stanley
Land at Last	255	(18)
Fridtjof Nansen
Customs of the Fan Tribe	273	(8)
Mary Kingsley
The Labrador Wild	281	(13)
Dillon Wallace
Butting Blindly into the Storm	294	(11)
Robert Dunn
Did Peary Reach the North Pole	305	(18)
David Roberts
People of the Stone Age	323	(13)
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Return From the Pole	336	(18)
Robert Falcon Scott
The Ends of the Earth	354	(10)
Roy Chapman Andrews
Journey to Lhasa	364	(19)
Alexandra David-Neel
The Empty Quarter	383
Wilfred Thesiger