Covering three centuries of exploration, the author serves up forty-three tales of misadventure; from the ill fated 1820 search for the Northwest Passage that resulted in crewmembers eating one another to De Salle's navigation blunders. On John Franklin s 1820 expedition to find the North-West Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene La Salle set off for the Mississippi Delta in 1684, he missed the target by five hundred miles, but on landing immediately built a prison for those who fell asleep on watch. Consummate storyteller Fergus Fleming brings together these and forty-three other gripping stories of adventure and endeavor. Off the Map recounts episodes both classic and forgotten. The classics are brought to life in more vivid colors than ever before. The lesser known stories offer accounts of feats that are no less heroic or extraordinary but have long lain hidden in the undergrowth of history. Heroics of polar explorers such as Peary, Scott and Amundsen, Cassell's tales of endurance and exploration offers the reader an unforgettable and unputdownable collection of stories.
"Some of the most extreme adventures man has ever endured. Each tale describes the exploits in vigorous and evocative prose giving individual stories a vitality that they might lack if told at greater length. A fascinating testament to the achievement of explorers and will entertain even the most weathered of arm-chair adventurers."
"Covering three centuries of exploration, the author serves up forty-three tales of misadventure; from the ill fated 1820 search for the Northwest Passage that resulted in crewmembers eating one another to De Salle's navigation blunders. On John Franklin s 1820 expedition to find the North-West Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene La Salle set off for the Mississippi Delta in 1684, he missed the target by five hundred miles, but on landing immediately built a prison for those who fell asleep on watch. Consummate storyteller Fergus Fleming brings together these and forty-three other gripping stories of adventure and endeavor. Off the Map recounts episodes both classic and forgotten. The classics are brought to life in more vivid colors than ever before. The lesser known stories offer accounts of feats that are no less heroic or extraordinary but have long lain hidden in the undergrowth of history. Heroics of polar explorers such as Peary, Scott and Amundsen, Cassell's tales of endurance and exploration offers the reader an unforgettable and unputdownable collection of stories."@en
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