Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth
Author(s): Ed Wright
Features approximately 80 adventurers who gave their lives in the cause of discovery. This book discusses the adventurers chronologically, and the various entries cover their careers up-to and including their final mission. It features maps, portraits, photos and quotations from diaries and letters.
Product Information
Ed Wright is a social commentator and regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, and the Australian Financial Review. He was the co-founder of the satirical Strewth! magazine and has a PhD in American Literature from the University of Sydney. He is also the author of History's Greatest Scandals, Celebrity Family Trees and A Left-Handed History of the World (Murdoch Books).
General Fields
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- : Murdoch Books
- : Pier 9
- : September 2008
- : 230mm X 184mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : 120 photos
- : 120 photos
- : True stories of endurance & survival; Geographical discovery & exploration
- : 320
- : 910.922
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Ed Wright