Synopsis
"Nine Against The Unknown is the story of nine great explorers. We are told of Leif Ericsson and his coming to America four hundred and eighty years before Columbus; of Marco Polo's great land journeys to Cathay and beyond; of Columbus, by a dozen rumours, sailing across the Atlantic; Cabeza de Vaca, that enigmatic Spaniard who searched North America for the Golden City Ciboa; of Magellan, the first to reach the East Indies from the west; of Vitus Bering, the discoverer of Bering Strait, and his search for Gama Land in the North Pacific; of Mungo Park's tramp through jungle Africa in his quest of the Niger and Timbuctoo; of Richard Burton's innumerable quests in three continents for the golden unknown land; and of Nanson's great drift in the Fram towards the last refuge of the Fortunate Land, the North Pole."--BOOK JACKET.
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