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In the eighteenth century, exploration entered a new phase: motivated by scientific inquiry rather than greed, the explorer s job was not only to open new lands but also to investigate the globe s mysteries. To this end they were expected to make a full w

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A hair-raising and hilarious account of the birth of mountaineering, from the days when dragons and other monsters were believed to reside on the mountain-tops, to modern-day competitive sport.

The atlas of 1816 was littered with blanks. Where was the North Pole Was there a North-West Passage What lay at the heart of Africa Did Antarctica exist In his quest to find the answers to these questions John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, launched a programme of exploration.

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'Barrow's Boys, Fergus Fleming's history of British exploration in the first half of the nineteenth century was an excellent book. Ninety Degrees North ... is an even better one' Sunday Telegraph

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