Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration, 1800-1900Helen Whybrow W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 566 sidor For intensity of geographical exploration and wealth of first-rate adventure writing by intrepid men and women, the 19th century stands alone. This definitive collection contains thirty-five stories from the most compelling odysseys of the century. The excerpts are as varied as the voyages themselves ? some humorous and lighthearted, others desperate and thrilling ? but all are examples of adventure, and adventure writing, at the highest level. Several long-forgotten classics are reprinted here for the first time in one hundred years. |
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I | 13 |
II | 15 |
III | 23 |
IV | 25 |
VI | 39 |
VIII | 62 |
X | 86 |
XII | 112 |
XXXVII | 319 |
XXXIX | 335 |
XLI | 345 |
XLIII | 365 |
XLV | 378 |
XLVII | 388 |
XLVIII | 403 |
XLIX | 405 |
XIV | 125 |
XVI | 145 |
XVIII | 159 |
XX | 178 |
XXII | 196 |
XXIV | 217 |
XXV | 219 |
XXVII | 241 |
XXIX | 264 |
XXXI | 278 |
XXXIII | 291 |
XXXV | 311 |
LI | 419 |
LIII | 428 |
LV | 441 |
LVI | 455 |
LVIII | 476 |
LX | 495 |
LXII | 514 |
LXIV | 534 |
LXVI | 548 |
565 | |
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Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900 Helen Whybrow Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
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