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These 19 masterful adventure tales span five centuries of exploration. There is an excerpt from Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's account of his sixteenth-century journey to the region north of the Gulf of Mexico, first published in Spain in 1542. There are stories of visits to the Liawep, a "lost tribe" living in the New Guinea jungle, and to the Ecuadorian Amazon, looking for a tribe of headhunters. Other exotic tales include a search for an ancient lost city once inhabited by the cliff-dwelling Anasazi in New Mexico and a search for the legendary capital city of the Inca civilization in Peru. An unsuccessful voyage to the North Pole in 1893 is matched with an expedition in 1932 in which two explorers climbed to more than 16,000 feet in East Africa's Ruwenzori mountains. And also appearing is an excerpt from the late novelist Harold Brodkey's journal that he kept after learning in 1993 that he was dying of AIDS. George Cohen
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Book Description
Explore: Stories of Survival From Off the Map offers first-hand accounts from the world's boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of mystery and adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the mountains of Africa and the Himalaya, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic and the canyon lands of the American southwest. Featuring selections from Tim Cahill, Redmond O'Hanlon, John Long, Fridtjof Nansen and Harold Brodkey, Explore includes the most thrilling and compelling accounts ever written of exploration. Each will take you off the map to those few refuges where true discovery is still possible.

About the Author
Editor Jennifer Schwamm Willis grew up next door to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She graduated from Princeton in 1979, and has worked as a designer, teacher and editor. She lives in Maine with her husband and their two sons.

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Jennifer Schwamm Willis grew up next door to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She graduated from Princeton in 1979, and has worked as a designer, teacher and editor. She lives in Maine with her husband and their two sons.

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