Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming

Barrow's Boys

Fergus Fleming

489 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous slow-paced
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The atlas of 1816 was littered with blanks. What was the North Pole? Was there a Northwest passage? What lay at the heart of Africa? Did Antarctica exist? In his quest to find the answers to these questions John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Adm...

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Moods

adventurous 66%
dark 66%
emotional 33%
informative 33%
sad 33%
tense 33%

Pace

slow 100%

Average rating

4.15

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