Nine Against the Unknown - Lewis Grassic Gibbon S.

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UK Kirkus review

The reissue of this book, first published in 1934, contains an excitement and wonder which is rarely read today. The amazing feats of Marco Polo to Nansen may seem tame to a world which has conquered space. Yet the nine men here all did it with their own or borrowed resources. No NASA charted their journeys. The nine - Leif Ericsson, Marco Polo, Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, Fernio de Magalhies, Vitus Bering, Mungo Park, Richard Burton and Fridtjof Nansen - are here celebrated in both cerebral and emotional prose, written at a time when man still wandered and wondered. (Kirkus UK)