Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany

The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany 
by Mark Jenkins 
Language: English 
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, ©2009. 
304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9781426204098, 1426204094 
Summary: Focusing on a time when the world had not been fully mapped or traveled, this book presents sights as witnessed through the eyes of Charles Darwin, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Meriwether Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Willa Cather, and many others.

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