Free Download Nine Journeys of Wonder: The Last Secrets, the Final Mysteries of Exploration (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08FV44TH4 | 2020 | 5 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 310 MB
Author: John Buchan
Narrator: ChasMandala
The first two decades of the 20th century will rank as a most distinguished era in the history of exploration, for during them many of the great geographical riddles of the world have been solved. This book contains a record of some of the main achievements. What Nansen said of Polar exploration is true of all exploration; its story is a "mighty manifestation of the power of the unknown over the mind of man." The unknown, happily, will be always with us, for there are infinite secrets in a blade of grass, and an eddy of wind, and a grain of dust, and human knowledge will never attain that finality when the sense of wonder shall cease.
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