“Travel history of the best kind: entertaining, informed and opinionated. “A sure bet for fans of Caroline Alexander’s The Endurance, this captivating survey of England’s exploration during the nineteenth century illuminates a host of forgotten personalities.” - Publishers Weekly Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps, Atlantic Monthly. “History at its most romantic.” - The Columbus Dispatch Barrows Boys, Granta Books (London, England), 1998, Atlantic Monthly Press (New York, NY), 2000. “Here is all the adventure you could want, stirringly and generously told.” -Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure Many of these expeditions are considered the greatest in history, and here they’ve been collected into one volume that captures the full sweep of Barrow’s program. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic to Antarctica, their mission: to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day.īarrow’s Boys is the spellbinding story of these adventurers, the perils they faced-including eating mice, their shoes, and even each other to survive-and the challenges they overcame on their odysseys into the unknown. In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. Barrows Boys : The Original Extreme Adventurers: Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude and Outright Lunacy. From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars.
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