Explore - Jennifer Schwamm Willis

First-hand accounts from the world's boldest explorers. These men and women are the genuine article - encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of mystery and adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, set in the mountains of Africa and the Himalayas; the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon; the ice flows of the Arctic and the canyon lands of the American South West. Explore includes selections from contemporary masters such as David Roberts, Tim Cahill, and Redmond O'Hanlon, as well as earlier explorers like A. N. Cabeza de Vaca and Fridtjof Nansen.;Edward Marriott and his party sneak into the pre-dawn New Guinea jungle to escape the wrath of the no-toriously dangerous Liawep warriors; Tim Flannery trespasses on sacred ground to find a Bulmer's fruit-bat - previously believed to be extinct since the last ice Age; John Long dives in search of a legendary underground lair, and runs low on air in the depths of a subterranean pool; David Roberts copes with ancient curses in his search for an Anasazi city high on the cliffs of New Mexico; Michael Finkel fights killer bees, tsetse flies, malaria and angry hippos on the Congo's Chinko river; Redmond O'Hanlon searches the Amazon for the dreaded Yanomami Indians - and finds them.