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Fergus Fleming

Barrow's Boys

A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy

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Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Fergus Fleming captures the passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble today's bravest adventurers.After the Napoleonic wars, John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, launched the most ambitious exploration program the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his teams of elite naval officers went on missions to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day. From the first disastrous trip down the Congo, Barrow maintained his resolve in the face of continuous catastro… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8021-9755-9
  • EAN: 9780802197559
  • Produktnummer: 21832368
  • Verlag: Grove Atlantic
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 512 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'708 KB

Über den Autor


Fergus Fleming was born in 1959 and studied at and . He was a writer and editor at Time-Life Books for six years before becoming a freelance writer in 1991. His books include Barrow's Boys, Ninety Degrees North, The Sword and the Cross, and Killing Dragons, which was a New York Times Notable Book.

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