Sein größter Traum geht nicht in Erfüllung: 1893 bricht der Norweger Fridtjof Nansen mit einem eigens dafür gebauten Schiff zur Eroberung des Nordpols auf und kehrt drei Jahre später in die Heimat zurück, ohne den Nordpol je betreten zu haben.
Excerpt: "e;While to scenery, it is distance,-and photography,-which lends enchantment, it is, on the contrary, propinquity which, in my experience, lends to the Borneo Head-Hunters and to their Home-life, a charm which cannot be wholly dispelled even by the skulls hanging from the rafters of their houses.
Excerpt: "e;Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night and it is quiet as the grave and beautiful as heaven-when it is not blowing and black as-the other place!
Chock full of ethnographical information about the Muslims of Somalia, Richard Burton's "e;First Footsteps in Africa"e; is a great look at a white man's first forays into that area of the continent.
Excerpt: "e;No books are generally more entertaining and instructive, than the accounts of travels into foreign countries; and especially those, which are written in the way of Journals.
The Venice which one visits to-day is so curiously a part and not a part of the ancient Venice of which we dream, that one feels, when in that sea-enveloped and fairy-like city, a strange sense of duality,-of being a veritable antique and an equally veritable modern.
Excerpt: "e;If the average student of Western American History in our schools were asked to recall those names which loom large for him during the four decades from the purchase of the Louisiana Territory to the coming of the settlers, he would doubtless think of Lewis and Clark, Lieutenant Pike, Major Long, and General Fremont, with perhaps one or two others.
Excerpt: "e;It seems customary in a book of travel to make frequent allusions to other voyagers who have journeyed over the same ground, or at least the same district, and to make constant references to them, and give copious quotations from their works.
In July 1891, a slender, bookish Prince-ton graduate packed a small knapsack, put on a suit of old work clothes, and walked into a new existence as a member of the working class.
Excerpt: "e;A denomination under which is comprehended a large chain of islands, extended in a curve from the Florida shore on the northern peninsula of America, to the Gulf of Venezuela on the southern.
Excerpt: "e;Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands: An Account of the Manners, Customs, Habits and Recreations, Peaceful and Warlike, of the Uncivilised World.
Excerpt: "e;The isolation in which Cornwall had stood has tended to develop in it much originality of character; and the wildness of the coast has bred a hardy race of seamen and smugglers; the mineral wealth, moreover, drew thousands of men underground, and the underground life of the mines has a peculiar effect on mind and character: it is cramping in many ways, but it tends to develop a good deal of religious enthusiasm, that occasionally breaks forth in wild forms of fanaticism.
(Excerpt): "e;In the year of our Lord 18-, I was delighted one morning by receiving a letter from my father, who was captain and owner of the brig Petrel, telling me that he had arrived safely at Bristol with a valuable cargo, and that both he and my brother Willie, who was second mate of the Petrel, were well.
Excerpt: "e;There are few lands upon the whole globe so imperfectly known to geographic science as the one which we shall try to describe in this little work.
George Carpenter's "e;The Holy Land and Syria"e; takes readers on a captivating journey through the Holy Land and Syria, regions steeped in religious and historical significance.
