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Ebook About From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars. In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic to Antarctica, their mission: to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day. Barrow’s Boys is the spellbinding story of these adventurers, the perils they faced—including eating mice, their shoes, and even each other to survive—and the challenges they overcame on their odysseys into the unknown. Many of these expeditions are considered the greatest in history, and here they’ve been collected into one volume that captures the full sweep of Barrow’s program. “Here is all the adventure you could want, stirringly and generously told.” —Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure “History at its most romantic.” —The Columbus Dispatch “A sure bet for fans of Caroline Alexander’s The Endurance, this captivating survey of England’s exploration during the nineteenth century illuminates a host of forgotten personalities.” —Publishers Weekly “Travel history of the best kind: entertaining, informed and opinionated.” —The Sunday TimesBook Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Review :
489 pages5 starsWhile he did much to further the cause of exploration both to Africa in searching for the Niger river, the exploration of Northern Canada and to Arctic and Antarctic exploration, John Barrow was a thoroughly unlikable and miserly individual. He was very self-centered and immediately dismissed not only any criticisms of his behavior, but was exceedingly rude and quick to counter such criticisms with personal attacks and outright lies about the author of the same.But Barrow's behavior aside, this book is a very interesting and comprehensive telling of the adventures of a wide variety of men who both commanded and attended such expeditions on which they were sent by Barrow. Barrow certainly had his favorites, such as Parry. Those who were not liked and who disagreed with Barrow's theories (often based on very old and unreliable sources), were castigated and disbelieved. Barrow had a very nasty tongue.He was “right” and would countenance no opposition. He often refused to believe eyewitness accounts when they did not agree with his own ideas. Then he would denigrate the witness.There are very interesting people in this book, at times brilliant and at times confounding in their behavior. We meet the courageous, the incompetent, the insane and the dowright ahhh...stupid. If you were a favorite of Barrow's, it did not matter your qualifications – you were sent on expeditions.It seems that the expeditions were beset by tragedies and hard luck. No wonder though with some of their goals. To trek across the Sahara? To fight the wilds of Canada? To sail north or south without knowing your path or destination? Shiver...not for me. In this I must say how brave (naive?) these men were.I felt that the second of Mr. Fleming's books was the better of the two he has written on these explorations. I really like reading about these truly courageous men and their sheer determination and drive to succeed and I have read a great many books about their travails and journeys. I am reading “1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica,” by Chris Turney next. Barrow's Boys is a survey of British exploration efforts in the first half of the 19th century (focusing mostly on the many efforts to find the Northwest Passage through the Arctic), viewed from the perspective of the man who organized and dispatched all those expeditions. John Barrow had a seemingly minor position - second secretary to the admiralty of the Royal Navy. But he was a consummate bureaucrat and an expert politician, and as author Fergus Fleming shows us, he nearly always got his way.The book takes us through (often doomed) expeditions to Africa, the Arctic and even Antarctica. We meet such curious characters as George Lyon (something of a forerunner to Lawrence of Arabia, in his way), Richard Lander (who made it across a thousand miles of disease and war-ravaged African lands single-handedly, when the rest of his expedition died), the quarrelsome Ross family (Arctic heroes John and James), "the man who ate his boots", John Franklin, and more.The book is written in a lively voice, liberally supported by excerpts from journals and letters written at the time. It's immensely entertaining, educational, and frankly mind-boggling to read of the unimaginable horrors that these explores faced and then volunteered to go back out and face again (the ones who survived, anyway).I'd absolutely recommend this book enthusiastically! Read Online Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Download Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy PDF Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Mobi Free Reading Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Download Free Pdf Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy PDF Online Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Mobi Online Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Reading Online Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy Read Online Fergus Fleming Download Fergus Fleming Fergus Fleming PDF Fergus Fleming Mobi Free Reading Fergus Fleming Download Free Pdf Fergus Fleming PDF Online Fergus Fleming Mobi Online Fergus Fleming Reading Online Fergus FlemingBest The Royal Harem: A reverse harem romance novel By Jamie Alistair
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