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Latitude Zero, Tales of the Equator

Latitude Zero, Tales of the Equator

by Gianni Guadalupi

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 258 PAGES

A digressive, entertaining series of essays on Equatorial adventures, real and imagined, combining history, tales of exploration, geography and intellectual inquiry. Guadaupi, an Italian historian who has also written about the Nile, zooms in on many of the big names in adventure: Darwin, Stanley and Livingston, Magellan and Sir Walter Raleigh.  (EXP30, $13.00)


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