Barrow’s Boys

The atlas of 1816 was littered with blanks. What was the North Pole? Was there a north-west Passage? What lay at the heart of Africa? Did Antarctica exist? In this quest to find the answer to these questions John Barrow, Second Secretary to Admiralty, launched the most ambitious programme of explaration the World had ever seen.

Fleming, Fergus

Paperpack. 489 pp.

Språk: Engelska