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Worlds to explore : classic tales of travel & adventure from National Geographic / edited by Mark Jenkins.

Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, ©2006.

xxv, 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"Polar fleece, titanium, and GPS have forever changed the face of exploration. Today an explorer can make a phone call from the top of Mount Everest and geo-locate himself in the thickest rain forest or the widest desert. Yet despite these advances, few modern adventures get close to the charm and romance of "The Desert Road to Turkestan," "Mysterious Temples of the Jungle," and "Airplanes Come to the Isles of Spice." In those bygone days, the pages of National Geographic were as close as most people could get to high adventure and faraway lands-and here's a chance to recapture them. Alongside noteworthy names like Robert Peary, Amelia Earhart, and Teddy Roosevelt, other less famous travelers take us on long-forgotten trips to places few Americans had gone. We follow as "An American Girl Cycles Across Transylvania," trek "A Thousand Miles Along the Great Wall of China," and glide "By Felucca Down the Nile." Introduced by brief essays that provide context and perspective, these engaging, engrossing selections speak for themselves-and trace the National Geographic Society's growth as it explored the unknown and brought it to readers eager for knowledge of "the world and all that is in it"--Publisher's description.

Voyages and travels.

Jenkins, Mark, 1960 July 12-

National Geographic Society (U.S.)

Includes index.

Foreword by Simon Winchester. Introduction by Mark Jenkins. The World of Africa: Wild man & wild beast in Africa (NGM 01/1911) / Theodore Roosevelt -- Elephant hunting in equatorial Africa (NGM 08/1912) / Carl Akeley -- At the tomb of Tutankhamen (NGM 05/1923) / Maynard Owen Williams -- Adventures in Eastern Darfur (NGM 01/1924) / Maj. Edward Keith-Roach -- Crossing the Libyan desert (NGM 09/1924) / A.M. Hassanein Bey -- Cairo to Cape town, Overland (NGM 02/1925) / Felix Shay -- Three-wheeling through Africa (NGM 01/1934). Remote Corners of the Russian Empire: An island in the sea of history: the highlands of Daghestan (NGM 10/1913) / George Kennan -- Life in the Great Desert of Central Asia (NGM 08/1909) The Afghan Borderland: the Persian frontier (NGM 10/1924) / Ellsworth Huntington -- With an exile in Arctic Siberia (NGM 12/1924) / Vladimir Zenzinov.

The Middle East. Persian caravan sketches (NGM 04/1921) / Harold F. Weston -- Crossing Asia Minor (NGM 10/1924) / Maj. Robert W. Imbrie -- Into burning Hadhramaut (NGM 10/1932) / Daniel Van Der Meulen -- An unbeliever joins the Hadj (NGM 06/1934) / Owen Tweedy -- Old and new in Persia (NGM 09/1939) / Mary Irene Curzon, Baroness Ravensdale -- Back to Afghanistan (NGM 10/1946) / Maynard Owen Williams. Along China's turbulent frontiers: The land of the yellow lama (NGM 04/1925) Experiences of a lone geographer (NGM 09/1925) / Joseph F. Rock -- By coolie and caravan across Central Asia (NGM 10/1927) / William J. Morden -- The desert road to Turkestan (NGM 06/1929) / Owen Lattimore -- From the Mediterranean to the Yellow Sea by motor (NGM 11/1932) / Maynard Owen Williams -- Explorations in the Gobi Desert (NGM 06/1933) / Roy Chapman Andrews.

The Himalayan Realm. Tiger-hunting in India (NGM 11/1924) / Gen. William Mitchell -- Across Tibet from India to China (NGM 08/1946) / Lt. Col. Ilia Tolstoy -- Caught in the Assam-Tibet earthquake (NGM 03/1952) / Frank Kingdon-Ward -- Triumph on Everest (NGM 07/1954) / Sir John Hunt and Sir Edmund Hillary. The Far East: The recent earthquake wave o n the coast of Japan (NGM 09/1896) / Eliza Scidmore -- Here in Manchuria (NGM 02/1933) / Lilian Grosvenor Coville -- Among the Big Knot Lois of Hainan (NGM 09/1938) / Leonard Clark. The Malay Archipelago: By motor through Sumatra (NGM 01/1920) / Melven A. Hall -- The island of Nias, at the edge of the world (NGM 08.1931) / Mabel Cook Cole -- Keeping house in Borneo (NGM 09/1945) -- Virginia Hamilton. Alaskan Adventures: A narrative of the St. Elias Expedition of 1890 (NGM 05/1891) / Israel C. Russell -- The valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (NGM 02/1918) / Robert F. Griggs. Along Old Spanish Roads: Along the Old Spanish Road in Mexico (NGM 03/1923) / Herbert Corey -- Buenos Aires to Washington by horse (NGM 02/1929) / Aime-Felix Tschiffely.

Lost Worlds of the Amazon and Orinoco: Exploring the Valley of the Amazon in a hydroplane (NGM 04/1926) / Capt. Albert W. Stevens -- A journey by jungle rivers to the home of the Cock-of-the-Rock (NGM 11/1933) / Ernest G. Holt -- Jungle journey to the world's highest waterfall (NGM 11/1949) / Ruth Robertson. Seas and islands: Rounding the Horn in a windjammer (NGM 02/1931) / Alan J. Villiers -- Sailing forbidden coasts (NGM 09/1931) / Ida Treat -- Pearl fishing in the Red Sea / Henri de Monfreid -- Turning back time in the South Seas (NGM 01/1941) / Thor Heyerdahl -- They survived at sea (NGM 05/1945) / Lt. Comdr. Samuel F. Harby. New Worlds to Explore: From London to Australia by aeroplane (NGM 03/1921) / Sir Ross Smith -- The conquest of Antarctica by air (NGM 08/1930) / Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd -- Flying around the North Atlantic (NGM 09/1934) / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- A round trip to Davy Jones's locker (NGM 06/1931) A half-mile down (NGM 12/1934) / William Beebe -- Exploring the stratosphere (NGM 10/1934) Man's farthest aloft (NGM 01/1936) / Capt. Albert W. Stevens -- Camera under the sea (NGM 02/1956) I found the bones of the bounty (NGM 12/1957) / Luis Marden.

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