Passionate Travellers: Around the World on 21 Incredible Journeys in History Contributor(s): Nicholson, Trish (Author) |
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ISBN: 1789018749 ISBN-13: 9781789018745 Publisher: Troubador Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Asia - Central - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
Dewey: 910.4 |
LCCN: 2019393272 |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.09 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Accompanying these 21 passionate travellers on their personal quests, we discover what drove them, and share their incredible journeys through deserts, mountains, jungles and seas to every continent, spanning 2,000 years of history from 480 BCE to the 1930s. These are true stories of daring adventure, courage, cunning, even murder and, above everything, sheer determination against all odds. Most of these eight women and thirteen men were ordinary people transformed by their journeys. They travelled from Africa, China, Persia, Russia, and the Mediterranean as well as from Europe and America. Their backgrounds were diverse, including: poet, artist, invalid, slave, pilgrim, doctor, missionary, scholar, diplomat, dilettante, storyteller, and anarchistic opera singer. Not all survived. Many have been forgotten. Who now knows that Octavie Coudreau, stranded in a canoe on the Amazon in 1899 with her dead husband, continued to chart the river? That Thomas Stevens was the first person to cycle around the world on a penny-farthing? And why was an English parlour maid abandoned on the Trans-Siberian railway and arrested by Stalin's secret police? With painstaking research and powerful storytelling, the author, herself a world-traveller, has created an intimate experience of each traveller's journey and recaptured a vanished world. A compelling travel read and a treat for history lovers. |