ACPL ITEM ods to EXPLORE CLASSIC TALES OF TRAVEL & ADVENTURE FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EDITED BY MARK JENKINS FOREWORD BY SIMON WINCHESTER Wor>Lds vast portions of tlie NOT SO LONG AGO, globe were still largely unknown, all travel was an adventure, and the pages of were as close as mo!>t NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC people would ever get to faraway lands. In Worlds to Explore editor Mark Jenkins tak(is readers around the world through 54 classic stories from an era when travel still involved tramp steamers. Pan Am Clippers, and the occasional camel caravan. From remote cor- ners of tsarist Russia to “ hew worlds” of undersea exploration and ea rly aviatioji, Jenkins artfully introduces each selectio placing it in context and describing tl captivating correspondents, wide-eye adventurers, and incurable vagabonds wf helped make the National Geograph: Society a household name. Famous names appear in these pages ^ Theodore Roosevelt, Thor Heyerdahl, Anr Morrow Lindbergh, Jacques Cousteau—bi a rich variety of unheralded travelers explorers, botanists, ornithologists, dipJ: mats, soldiers, sailors, and the occasionf rogue—help make this volume so riveting They were men and women who fc months or years at a time forsook the core forts of home to seek out the far corners c the world, ranging from the Sahara to Arcti Siberia to the jungles of Borneo to the mai vels of Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousar.i Smokes. They traversed Afghanistan an( Tibet and Arabia’s mysterious Hadhramau region when those lands were closed or foi bidden to foreigners. They were pioneers u the thrilling early days I I bathyspheres and strato |]||lloon I went deeper into the sea ar || || |ito th( sky than ever before. I I Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780792254874 WorLds tro EXPLORE Another world to explore: A member of a 1917 expedition to Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes marvels at a mud canyon, one feature in a range of volcanic phenomena so astonishing that it was like watching a new pla net being formed. WopLds to EXPLORE CLASSIC TALES OF TRAVEL & ADVENTURE FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EDITED BY MARK JENKINS n NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WASHINGTON, D.C. Copyright ©2006. The National Geographic Society. Foreword copyright© 2006 Simon Winchester. All rights reserved. Reproduction of the whole or any part of the contents without written permission is prohibited. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Worlds to explore: classic tales of travel and adventure from National Geographic/ edited by Mark Jenkins p.cm Includes index. ISBN 0-7922-5487-2 Voyages and travels. 2. Jenkins, Mark, i960 July 12-. II. National Geographic I. Society (U.S.) G465.W665 2006 910'—dc22 2005058392 ISBN-io: 0-7922-5487-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7922-5487-4 One of the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, the National Geographic Society was founded in 1888 “for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge.” Fulfilling this mission, the Society educates and inspires millions every day through its magazines, books, television programs, videos, maps and atlases, research grants, the National Geographic Bee, teacher workshops, and innovative classroom materials. The Society is supported through membership dues, charitable gifts, and income from the sale of its educational products. This support is vital to National Geographic’s mission to increase global understanding and promote conservation of our planet through exploration, research, and education. For more information, please call 1-800-NGS LINE (647-5463) or write to the following address: National Geographic Society 1145 17th Street N.W Washington, D.G. 20036-4688 U.S.A. Visit the Society’s Web site at www.nationalgeographic.com. Designed by Cameron Zotter