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Off the Map
Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration | Fergus Fleming
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�A fine and lively collection of exploration stories� from the author of Barrow�s Boys (Kirkus Reviews). On John Franklin�s 1820 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing (…more)
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This is a pretty lively summary of readings about discoverers and “discoverers”, explorers and mapmakers. Inherently a volatile mix of political chicanery, the hubris of men that think it‘ll be fun to sail off the edge of the world, scurvy, occasional deaths by polar bear, and the vicissitudes of pre-industrial economics, expansionism, and mercantilism, I found myself grimly laughing at all these misadventures.

Read it.