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Alastair Humphreys’ Great Adventurers
The incredible expeditions of 20 explorers
Alistair Humphreys, illustrated by Kevin Ward
(Big Picture Press)
‘Great Adventurers’ is adventurer Alastair Humphreys’ selection of twenty trailblazing explorers and inspirations. We travel from the Antarctic to Alice Springs, a WWII prisoner-of-war camp to the Alaskan coastline, following the ‘Great Adventurers’
What is most surprising about the subjects of this book is the comparative youth and inexperience of many. While we consider the need to p prepare as an SAS adventurer, what of someone like Dervla Murphy? She was the bicyclist who cycled on an ordinary cycle, from Dunkirk to Delhi! We draw breath alongside Amelia Earhart as she flies across the Atlantic. Ibn Battuta who left Morocco aged 21, only to return…. thirty years later!
We are reminded of the heroism of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, as told also in Into the White: Scott’s Antarctic Odyssey. Despite near blindness, his goodwill and indomitability, endeared him to Captain Scott. He played more than a small part in that expedition.
Winner of the Ordnance Survey Children’s Travel Book
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