224pp, illustrated throughout. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper 'To Brian - with all best wishes to the best quartermaster any explorers could wish for, without whom no traveller could have started from the BBC. Desmond Dec. 1975'. 4to. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped.
Charts the lives, the beginnings, the influences, the motives, and the endings of ten explorers.Â
