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Loading... Passionate Travellers: Around the World on 21 Incredible Journeys in Historyby Trish Nicholson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. https://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2020/06/2020064-passionate-travellers-trish.html ( ) Passionate Travellers by Trish Nicholson Around the World on 21 Incredible Journeys in History A bit of history and a lot of travel is experienced in this collection of mini-biographies. I am not sure what I was expecting but this book did introduce some new and rather interesting characters that I would not have heard of without having read this book. I did find a few I had heard of before but not many. What I liked: * reading about the motivation behind the trips * finding out about those taking the trips * hearing about the people met and experiences had on the journeys * wondering what I would have done in similar situations * learning that Robert Louis Stevenson had tuberculosis and died so young...also intrigued by his choice of wife * reading that travel by sea was considered medically therapeutic * relating to the women * gaining respect for those that made the trips and recorded them for us to read about later * the references listed at the end What I would have enjoyed * photos of the people and places when possible * A bit more about the feelings and reflections of those on the trip Thank you to NetGalley and Troubador Publishing – Matador for the ARC – This is my honest review. 4-5 Stars no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)910.4History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel Accounts of travel and facilities for travellersRatingAverage:
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