Madder than the maddest scientists, eccentric travellers made exploration popular. Who could resist the naturalist who wrestled with boa constrictors, the evangelist who stomped the Hindu Kush stark naked, or the vitriolic 'Governor Gallstone' who forsook the American Indians for a horse-drawn odyssey with monkey, parakeet and long-suffering family?
- ISBN10 0563202807
- ISBN13 9780563202806
- Publish Date 6 November 1985 (first published 23 August 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher BBC Consumer Publishing
- Imprint BBC Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English