A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy
by
Fergus Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For...