Nine Against the Unknown. A Record of Geographical Exploration.

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic, J. Leslie Mitchell und Ian Campbell:

ISBN 10: 0748662707 / ISBN 13: 9780748662708

Published by Edinburgh, Polygon, 2000

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368 Seiten Buch ist neu, aus priv. Vorbesitz, ungelesen. ISBN: 9780748662708 Wir senden umgehend mit beiliegender MwSt.Rechnung. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 380 Taschenbuch, Größe: 13.3 x 3.2 x 19.7 cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nine Against the Unknown. A Record of Geographical Exploration.
• Publisher: Edinburgh, Polygon
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748662707
• ISBN 13: 9780748662708
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Reprinted 2001.
• Condition: Neu
• Weight: 380 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Romane

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Synopsis

Nine Against the Unknown is the story of nine great explorers who in their deliberate adventuring into the unknown to search for the Fortunate Land, the Isles of Youth, the Golden City -all legendary lands rising originally, in the dawn of history, from a Mediterranean myth -achieved the greater measure of man´s conquest of the earth. They tell 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, led by a dozen rumours, sailing across the Atlantic; of Cabeza de Vaca, that enigmatic Spaniard who searched North America for the Golden City of 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 Richard Burton´s innumerable quests in three continents for the golden unknown land; and of Nansen´s great drift in the Fram towards the last refuge of the Fortunate Land, the North Pole. This is a record of geographical exploration from a time when many believed that the future of humankind lay in the recovery of freedom -of spirit, of belief, of society.

About the Author

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was born in 1901 and died at the age of 34. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and is best known for his Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair.