Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic

by Mark Jenkins (Editor)

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Polar fleece, titanium, and GPS have forever changed the face of exploration. Today an explorer can make a phone call from the top of Mount Everest and geo-locate himself in the thickest rain forest or the widest desert.

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Mark Jenkins
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Mark Jenkins lives in Laramie, Wyoming, with his wife and two daughters. The adventure columnist for Outside magazine, Jenkins journeys to the most difficult and dangerous places on the planet every month. Formerly the investigative editor for Men's Health, Jenkins has also written for GQ, Playboy, Conde Nast Traveler, Backpacker, Reader's Digest, show more and The Washington Post show less

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Akeley, Carl (Contributor)
Andrews, Roy Chapman (Contributor)
Beebe, William (Contributor)
Bey, A. M. Hassanein (Contributor)
Byrd, Richard E. (Contributor)
Clark, Leonard (Contributor)
Cole, Mabel Cook (Contributor)
Corey, Herbert (Contributor)
Coville, Lilian Grosvenor (Contributor)
Curzon, Mary Irene (Contributor)
De Monfreid, Henri (Contributor)
Griggs, Robert F. (Contributor)
Hall, Melvin A. (Contributor)
Hamilton, Virginia (Contributor)
Harby, Samuel F. (Contributor)
Heyerdahl, Thor (Contributor)
Hillary, Edmund (Contributor)
Holt, Ernest G. (Contributor)
Hunt, Sir John (Contributor)
Huntington, Ellsworth (Contributor)
Imbrie, Robert W. (Contributor)
Keith-Roach, Edward (Contributor)
Kennan, George (Contributor)
Kingdon-Ward, Frank (Contributor)
Lattimore, Owen (Contributor)
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (Contributor)
Marden, Luis (Contributor)
Mitchell, William (Contributor)
Morden, William J. (Contributor)
Robertson, Ruth (Contributor)
Rock, Joseph F. (Contributor)
Roosevelt, Theodore (Contributor)
Russell, Israel C. (Contributor)
Shay, Felix (Contributor)
Skidmore, Eliza (Contributor)
Smith, Ross (Contributor)
Stevens, Albert W. (Contributor)
Tolstoy, Ilia (Contributor)
Treat, Ida (Contributor)
Tschiffely, Aimé Félix (Contributor)
Tweedy, Owen (Contributor)
Van Der Meulen, Daniel (Contributor)
Villiers, Alan J. (Contributor)
Weston, Harold F. (Contributor)
Williams, Maynard Owen (Contributor)
Wilson, James C. (Contributor)
Zenzinov, Vladimir (Contributor)

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2006

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Travel, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
DDC/MDS
910.4 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Pirates & Shipwrecks
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G465 .W665 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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