{"product_id":"exploring-the-world-9781474606295","title":"Exploring the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind''s development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised their achievements by awarding its prestigious gold medals to those who have contributed most to our knowledge of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking us on a journey across mountains and deserts, oceans and seas, \u003ci\u003eExploring the World\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of more than eighty of these extraordinary men and women. Some, such as David Livingstone, Scott of the Antarctic and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, are well known; whilst others, such as William Chandless and Ney Elias, are today less familiar. Some dreamed of being the first to sight a lake or a river; others sighted some of the world''s greatest natural features by chance. Some were naturalists, anthropologists or mountaineers; others went in search of explorers who had vanished without trace, or ha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly all of the men and women covered are worthy of a book in their own right, and many of the big names are here: Richard Burton, David Livingstone, Colonel Percy Fawcett, Alfred Russel Wallace, Eric Shipton, Gertrude Bell and Dame Freya Stark. What emerges as the tales layer up is the inspiring singularity of so many of these intrepid individuals. They aren't all high-achieving head girl\/boy types, but instead come across as often unconventional and intractable, occasionally irrational, but nearly always resolute, even in their aberrance * GEOGRAPHICAL *\u003cbr\u003eBristling with heroic tales of indomitable characters forcing their way in impossible circumstances through forests, over  mountains and across deserts in search of a better understanding of this world . . . as a busy person's eyebrow-raising page-turner, this book is hard to beat * COUNTRY LIFE *\u003cbr\u003eA model biography of the explorer . . . Maitland has separated reality from legend . . . Meticulous research is illuminated by Maitland's evocations of Thesiger's affinity with a world characterised by desert romance * Sunday Telegraph on WILFRED THESIGER *\u003cbr\u003eA worthy testament to an exceptional life * Independent on Sunday on WILFRED THESIGER *\u003cbr\u003eMasterly * The Times on WILFRED THESIGER *\u003cbr\u003eThesiger was compared to the greatest travellers of the Victorian age . . . Maitland captures that strange attractiveness, his undoubted love and understanding of a now-vanished world * Financial Times on WILFRED THESIGER *\u003cbr\u003eThis thorough biography will be fascinating to Thesiger aficionados * Mail on Sunday on WILFRED THESIGER *\u003cbr\u003eMaitland has done justice to an extraordinary subject * Scotsman on WILFRED THESIGER *\u003cbr\u003eIn this important biography of one of England's great legendary figures, Wilfred Thesiger's life and works are analysed in minute detail . . . it reads like an adventure story * Country Life on WILFRED THESIGER *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851818352983,"sku":"9781474606295","price":10.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474606295.jpg?v=1710645801","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exploring-the-world-9781474606295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}