Curiosities and splendour

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Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before. Tales include Robert Byron's ten-month journey through Persia to Afghanistan in the early 30s; Jack London's 1907 sailing adventure across the south Pacific; and Teddy Roosevelt's scientific explorat...

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ISBN:

9781788683029
1788683021

Description:

312 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Curiosities and splendour : an anthology of classic travel literature
Curiosities and splendor
Lonely Planet curiosities and splendour

Notes:

Includes index
"Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Robert Byron, Edith Wharton, John Muir, Isabella Bird, Captain Cook, Charles Darwin, Apsley Cherry-Garrard"--Cover

Contents:

Station life in New Zealand / Mary Anne Barker
Lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird
Road to Oxiana / Robert Byron
Worst journey in the world / Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Voyages / James Cook
Voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin
American notes / Charles Dickens
Journal of a voyage to Lisbon / Henry Fielding
Summer on the Lakes / Margaret Fuller
Histories / Herodotus, trans. by George Rawlinson
Tales of the Alhambra / Washington Irving
English hours / Henry James
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland / Samuel Johnson
Sea and Sardinia / DH Lawrence
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa / David Livingstone
Cruise of the Snark / Jack London
Letters / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
My first summer n the Sierra / John Muir
Farthest North / Fridtjof Nansen
Travels in the interior Africa / Mungo Park
Discovery of a North-West passage / William Edward Parry
Travels of Marco Polo / Marco Polo
With the Tibetans in tent and temple / Susanna Carson Rijnhart
Travels through the Brazilian Wilderness / Theodore Roosevelt
South / Ernest Shackleton
Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes / Robert Louis Stevenson
Life in the Mississippi / Mark Twain
In Morocco / Edith Warton
Letters written during a short residence in Norway, Sweden and Denmark / Mary Wollstonecraft

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2796519

Other Authors:

Lonely Planet Publications (Firm), issuing body
MacKenzie, Mark, editor

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