Travelogue across six global regions: Provides immersive insights into diverse cultures and landscapes
Personal reflections on exploration: Offers a human perspective on the quest for discovery
Historical and contemporary voyages: Connects readers to both ancient and modern explorers
National Book Award-winning author: Ensures literary quality and recognition
592 pages of engaging prose: Delivers a comprehensive and detailed account
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From the National Book Award-winning writer, humanitarian, environmentalist and author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams: a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped his extraordinary life. Poignantly, powerfully, it also asks "How do we move