Dead Reckoning

Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900

By: Helen Whybrow (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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There are few thrills as exciting as weather at its worst. We often hear on the news that the day was the hottest, coldest, wettest, or snowiest on record. Is the climate really becoming more extreme as a result of global warming? The facts are in this book. Extensively illustrated with colour photographs of some of the most extreme weather ever captured on camera, more than fifty colour maps, and tables of weather records for over three hundred U.S. cities, this book is both an entertainment and an indispensable reference. Also included are historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed: heat bursts, electrified dust storms, snow rollers, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, falls of fish and toads, ball lightning, super bolts, and other strange meteorological events. Here's the must-have book for Weather Channel and Guinness Book of World Records fans.

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"What emerges again and again in the writings Ms. Whybrow has compiled are not the ways in which an explorer destroys or inflates or distorts but the ways an explorer comes to see."

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Acknowledgments	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Voyages of Discovery	p. 23
From The Journals of Lewis and Clark	p. 25
From The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons	p. 39
From Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada	p. 62
From Farthest North	p. 86
From In the Lena Delta	p. 112
From Tent Life in Siberia	p. 125
From Voyage of the Beagle	p. 145
From The Malay Archipelago	p. 159
From Through the Dark Continent	p. 178
From An Account of the Crossing of the Continent of Australia	p. 196
Personal Odysseys	p. 217
From Voyage of the Liberdade	p. 219
From Two Years Before the Mast	p. 241
From The Cruise of the Cachalot	p. 264
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes	p. 278
From Alfred F. Mummery's My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus	p. 291
From Adventures on the Roof of the World	p. 311
From The Oregon Trail	p. 319
From Roughing It	p. 335
From The Lure of the Labrador Wild	p. 345
From The Ascent of Mount St. Elias	p. 365
From The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss	p. 378
From Across Asia on a Bicycle	p. 388
Lifelong Quests	p. 403
From Among the Celestials	p. 405
From In the Forbidden Land	p. 419
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn	p. 428
From Travels in Alaska	p. 441
From The Maine Woods	p. 455
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains	p. 476
From Travels in West Africa	p. 495
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah	p. 514
From Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan	p. 534
From My Life as an Explorer	p. 548
Bibliography	p. 565
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