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A collection of anecdotes for each day of the year on the subject of travel and exploration from Charles Darwin, Michael Palin, Evelyn Waugh, and others.
With an emphasis on the period 17501950the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writingthis anthology features excerpts that convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers such as Captains Cook and Scott to modern travel writers journeying through the contemporary world, from people who pushed back the boundaries of geographical knowledge to people who wrote about what they did on their summer holidays.
The book includes an introduction, explanatory notes and mini-biographies of all the contributors, including:
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