David Welky
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“A fractured, flawed man, he combined elements of George Borup, Robert Peary, and Lord Byron.”
― A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
― A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
“By 1906 there were few blank spaces left on the world map. Central Africa, the Amazon River basin, the high Himalayas, and Antarctica still had some uncharted areas.”
― A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
― A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
“As “the last great geographical problem left to the world for solution,” it symbolized the conclusion of the global journey of exploration begun many thousands of years ago when a few hundred bipedal hominids living in east Africa set out to learn what lay over the horizon.”
― A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
― A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
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