Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration“A fine and lively collection of exploration stories” from the author of Barrow’s Boys (Kirkus Reviews). On John Franklin’s 1820 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene La Salle set off for the Mississippi Delta in 1684, he missed the target by five hundred miles, but on landing, immediately built a prison for those who fell asleep on watch. Consummate storyteller Fergus Fleming brings together these and forty-three other gripping stories spanning three ages of exploration in Off the Map. Off the Map recounts episodes both classic and forgotten: The “classics” are brought to life in more vivid colors than ever before; the lesser-known stories offer accounts of extraordinary feats that have long lain hidden. From the Renaissance golden age of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, to the twentieth-century heroics of polar explorers such as Peary, Scott, and Amundsen, this is an unforgettable journey into the annals of adventure. “A first-rate one-volume . . . introduction to many hair-raising stories of exploration.” —The New York Times “Each story is short, punchy, and crammed with facts . . . Fleming possesses an eye for wry detail.” —Adventure “There isn’t a dud in the lot . . . Adventure reading of a high order: brisk, fresh and full of color.” —Kirkus Reviews |
Contents
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Francisco de Orellana 15416 | 63 |
William Barents 15947 | 72 |
Henry Hudson 161011 | 83 |
Luke Foxe and Thomas James 16312 | 96 |
Robert Burke and William Wills | 296 |
Richard Burton and John Speke 185765 | 308 |
Edward Whymper 1865 | 316 |
The Pundits 18651902 | 326 |
Charles Hall George Tyson and the Polaris 18713 | 336 |
David Livingstone and H M Stanley 18717 | 343 |
Carl Weyprecht and Julius von Payer | 353 |
George Nares 18756 | 361 |
René La Salle 166987 | 103 |
THE AGE OF INQUIRY | 119 |
Vitus Bering 172542 | 125 |
CharlesMarie de la Condamine 173545 | 138 |
James Cook 176879 | 149 |
HoraceBénédict de Saussure 176088 | 171 |
Alexander von Humboldt 17991803 | 180 |
The Great Trigonometrical Survey 180066 | 190 |
W E Parry 181827 | 207 |
John Franklin 181825 | 217 |
Hugh Clapperton and Richard Lander 182131 | 228 |
Gordon Laing and René Caillié 18248 | 243 |
John Ross 182933 | 256 |
James Clark Ross 183943 | 264 |
The search for Franklin 184559 | 271 |
George De Long 187982 | 367 |
Adolphus Greely 18814 | 375 |
Fridtjof Nansen 18936 | 385 |
Salomon Andrée 1897 | 392 |
Fernand Foureau 18991900 | 398 |
The Duke of Abruzzi 18991900 | 404 |
The Pole at last? Robert Peary and Frederick Cook 19089 | 410 |
Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen 191112 | 422 |
Douglas Mawson 191113 | 432 |
Ernest Shackleton 191416 | 444 |
The conquest of Everest? George Mallory and Sandy Irvine 1924 | 462 |
Umberto Nobile 1928 | 477 |
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