Around the World
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780763669256 (0763669253)
Publish date: August 26th 2014
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
It'd be awesome even without the amazing mustaches and the appearance by Mr and Mrs Jules Verne. Replay, when someone becomes fascinated by people in long isolation and adventure.Great material, well handled, and with resources at the end for further reading. I'm now hoping to get to Bly's Ten Days ...
An engaging smorgasbord of adventure travel, with three stories of Earth circumnavigation in the late 1800's. Thomas Stevens, Nellie Bly and Joshua Slocum were each interesting individuals motivated by the same desire to blaze their own life trails in a unique and distinguishing manner. Matt Phelan'...