|a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacywritten by Fergus Flemingwhich was published in. |a Initial Lake County load m2btab.test019 in 2018.10 |a Explorers |0 |z Great Britain |0 |x History. |a Discoveries in geography |0 |x British |x History. Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Barrows Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers - A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy is a book by Fergus Fleming. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages -478) and index. The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. |a xiv, 489 pages : |b illustrations, maps |c 24 cm Many of the missions are considered the greatest in history, but have never before been collected into one volume that captures the full sweep of Barrow's program.|a New York : |b Atlantic Monthly Press, |c 2000.

While many of the journeys failed, Barrow and his men ultimately opened Africa to the world, discovered Antarctica, and pried apart the mandibles of the Arctic. In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of. From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars. They struggled under budgets that forced them to resort to pulling enormous ships across floating ice fields to eating mice, or their own shoes and even to horrifying acts of cannibalism. Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy. His explorers often died of sickness or at the hands of unfriendly natives.

From the first disastrous trip down the Congo, Barrow maintained his resolve in the face of continuous catastrophes. For the next thirty years, his teams of elite naval officers went on missions to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day. A sure bet for fans of Caroline Alexander's The Endurance, this captivating survey of England's exploration during the 19th century illuminates a host of forgotten personalities, principal among. Fergus Fleming captures the passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble today's bravest adventurers.Īfter the Napoleonic wars, John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, launched the most ambitious exploration program the world has ever seen. Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions.

Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming