Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth

Lost Explorers

Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth

By
Ed Wright
Ed Wright
2008 • 305 pages

The stories in this book are tragic, mysterious, thrilling and rip-roaring and their subjects include heroes, villains and misguided innocents. It features approximately 80 adventurers who gave their lives in the cause of discovery. Each chapter discusses the adventurers chronologically and covers their career up to their end.

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