Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800 David McCullough They dig a pond

They dig a pond

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Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800 David McCullough They dig a pondRichard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo with the Sioux in the Black Hills. This remarkable collection contains stories from the most compelling and celebrated odysseys of the century, some of them long forgotten classics of their time. From