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  • Book #27: The Oxford Book of Exploration by Robin Hanbury-Te …
    Posted in: 50bookchallenge
    Posted 16 hours ago by gavluvsga
    Tags: academic ,  history ,  autobiography ,  diary ,  africa ,  canada ,  travel writing ,  animals ,  scholarly ,  adventure ,  around the world in 100 books ,  non-fiction ,  translation ,  biography
    Mood: accomplished
    Music: Mica Paris & David Gilmour, "I Put a Spell on You"
    Location: My Flat
    Number of pages: 530 This book is an anthology of travel writing, which I've been slowly reading over the last few months. Throughout the book are several excerpts from diaries of explorers (some famous, others more obscure) and other writing about them by fellow travellers. At times, I found this book quite heavy going, although I liked the fact that there was a separate chapter for each ...

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