The author of The Thirty-Nine Steps turns historian of exploration, surveying the great geographical riddles solved in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Chapters cover the entry into Lhasa, the gorges of the Brahmaputra, the North Pole, the Mountains of the Moon, the race between Amundsen and Scott for the South Pole, Mount McKinley and journeys to the holy cities of Islam.
A lucid survey of an extraordinary age of discovery, written with the narrative pace Buchan brought to his thrillers. Download the free EPUB.