A review by omipotent
The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching

4.0

Super cool! Beautiful images, lots of great stories, lots of good history. Thanks to Disney, I had absolutely no idea how dangerous the old world of exploring was, every story "and they came back 54 men down" like these guys literally were like 'were going to scale uncharted lands and if we get eaten by cannibals, die of disease or freeze to death, it's an occupational hazard." Envious, I am envious but after my one experience of being stuck on mt Fuji for 16 hours and having to sleep in a cloud and get rescued by mongolians, not sure it's as fun as it looks on paper.