Subtitle on cover: Classic first-hand accounts of exploration by David Livingstone ..."
Contents:
AUSTRALIA : Landfall at Botany Bay / James Cook Escape from the outback / Charles Sturt Death at Coopers Creek / William John Wills To see the sea / John McDouall Stuart NORTH AMERICA : First crossing of America / Alexander Mackenzie Meeting the Shoshonee / Meriwether Lewis SOUTH AMERICA : Eating dirt in Venezuela / Alexander von Humboldt Iron rations in Amazonia / Henry Savage Landor The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham ARCTIC : Four years in the ice / John Ross Living off lichen and leather / John Franklin Adrift on an Arctic ice floe / Fridtjof Nansen The Pole is mine / Robert Edwin Peary ANTARCTIC : Farthest South / Ernest Henry Shackleton The Pole at last / Roald Amundsen In extremis / Robert Falcon Scott SIBERIA AND ALASKA : Stranded on Bering Island / Georg Wilhelm Stellar The walk to Moscow / John Dundas Cochrane CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA : Alarms amongst the Uzbeks / Alexander Burnes On the roof of the world / John Wood Lhasa beckons / Regis-Evariste Huc Exploring Angkhor / Henri Mouhot Over the Karakorams / Francis Edward Younghusband Trials in Tibet / Ekai Kawaguchi At the source of the Indus / Sven Hedin Everest by storm / Edmund Hilary ARABIA : Escape from Riyadh / William Gifford Palgrave Desert days / Charles Montagu Doughty The point of return / Harry St. John Bridger Philby To the empty quarter for a drink of water / Wilfred Thesiger WEST AFRICA : Alone in Africa / Mungo Park The road to Kano / Hugh Clapperton Down the Niger / Richard Lander Arrival in Timbuktu / Heinrich Barth My Ogowé / Mary Kingsley EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA : Among the Sudanese / James Bruce Not the source of the Nile / Richard Francis Burton A glimpse of Lake Victoria / John Hanning Speke The reservoir of the Nile / Samuel White Baker Last days / David Livingstone Encounters on the Upper Congo / Henry Morton Stanley A novice at large / Joseph Thomson
