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Impossible Journeys - Hardcover

Lyons, Mathew

 
9781860113338: Impossible Journeys
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ISBN 10: 1860113338 ISBN 13: 9781860113338
Verlag: Cadogan Guides, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

In Impossible Journeys, Mathew Lyons explores the bravest, most fantastic, and outlandish voyages undertaken across the centuries and over many continents--regardless of whether the journeys were possible or not. With great humor and gripping narrative, Lyons reimagines these intrepid, hopeful voyages, re-telling extraordinary quests and examining man's need for finding, climbing, sailing, crossing, and conquering. Some are journeys to places that no longer exist, others are false journeys: explorations to places that never existed, though explorers thought they did. Then there are the journeys that were impossible, even if people claimed to have made them, and the absurdly dangerous journeys that were supposed to be impossible but weren't! Did anyone find Utopis or Nonesuch? Who walked from London to India several centuries ago? Impossible Journeys has the answers.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mathew Lyons is a freelance journalist and writer with an MA in Renaissance Literature. He is the author of the critically acclaimed There and Back Again in Cadogan's In the Footsteps series and has written for a number of newspapers including The Times, and The Guardian.

Mathew Lyons is a freelance journalist and writer with an MA in Renaissance Literature. He is the author of the critically acclaimed There and Back Again in Cadogan's In the Footsteps series and has written for a number of newspapers including The Times and The Guardian.

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Impossible Journeys reveals an age when the known world was small, and seemingly empty oceans surrounding it inspired conjecture and fantasy. In this riveting compendium, Mathew Lyons selects the most remarkable true stories of intrepid journeys - at a time when maps were non-existent, incomplete or simply wrong - and the tenacity, bravery and occasional mad brilliance of the travelers who undertook them.
Within these pages, the search for sunken islands and for cities of gold wrestles with shipwrecks and survival despite all odds. Merchants and mapmakers, stilt-walkers, seadogs, friars, lovers, fools, cannibals and kings all have their place. Instances of heroism, courage and tragedy unfold. There is vanity and greed. There are drunken visions, absurdly named places and quests for an Earthly Paradise. And above all, a belief that these journeys and discoveries are possible.
The world, as you know it, may never seem quite the same again.

Aus dem Klappentext

In Impossible Journeys, Mathew Lyons explores the bravest, most fantastic, and outlandish voyages undertaken across the centuries and over many continents--regardless of whether the journeys were possible or not. With great humor and gripping narrative, Lyons re-imagines these intrepid, hopeful voyages, re-telling extraordinary quests and examining man's need for finding, climbing, sailing, crossing, and conquering. Some are journeys to places that no longer exist, others are false journeys: explorations to places that never existed, though explorers thought they did. Then there are the journeys that were impossible, even if people claimed to have made them, and the absurdly dangerous journeys that were supposed to be impossible but weren't! Did anyone find Utopis or Nonesuch? Who walked from London to India several centuries ago? Impossible Journeys has the answers.

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Verlag
Cadogan Guides
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1860113338
ISBN 13 
9781860113338
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
221
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