'Creme de la creme of world adventuring.' New York Times Book Review
Evan S. Connell, long recognised as one of the most important American literary voices, is the author of seventeen books, including Mrs Bridge, Mr Bridge and the bestselling Son of the Morning Star, his account of Custer's final battle at the Little Big Horn, and, most recently, his book about the crusades, Deus lo Volt! He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Quite simply, a great book... Combining the poet's vision with the
narrative sweep of a born storyteller and painstaking historical
research, Connell revives the lost sense of awe and wonder that,
along with the misery and privation, must have marked these epic
voyages of body and mind
*Los Angeles Times*
Connell is one of those exuberant American historians who believe
so passionately that everything must be fun that the reader
sometimes pines for a piece of dry gravitas. Nevertheless, these
essays, on a theme of exploration, contain enough rattling yarns to
silence even this cynic
*Herald*
A survey of great feats of exploration, a compendium of a
lifetime's reading of adventure, a book of wonders, florid history,
provisional 'facts' and catchy ironies, laconic heroism and
scabrous villainies, cryptic deaths and other endings
*New York Times Book Review*
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