Into the Unknown: Tales from the Great Explorers

This anthology collects first-hand expedition reports drawn from papers and lectures given to the Royal Geographical Society. The pieces run from the 1860s search for the source of the Nile through later journeys on ice, desert, mountain, and ocean. Speke and Grant, Nansen, Amundsen, Bertram Thomas, Freya Stark, Theodore Roosevelt, Thor Heyerdahl, and the Everest party of 1953 are among those who describe a route, a method, and the physical cost of going where maps were still thin. Archaeology, survey, and polar travel sit beside crossing Greenland, the Empty Quarter, and the North-West Passage. The book is a set of separate traveller's accounts, not a single history of exploration.

Bound in white cloth wrap-around printed with a monochrome photo. Grey slipcase and endpapers.