Extreme Voyagers 2: the Next Generation, by Jeremy Batch
Any toddler who waved a flag at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant (Spithead, 1897) would have learned at school about the Wright brothers’ first flight only six years later. He would also, if he just exceeded his “threescore years and ten”, have watched men walk on the Moon.
Within his lifetime, men and women would have travelled through the Northwest and Northeast Passages, to the Poles, to the bottom of the ocean, through the sound barrier, to the edge of the atmosphere and into space, and several would have sailed single-handed around the world. Who were these guys (and girls), and who were the shipwrights, designers, scientists and engineers who made their voyages possible?
We pick up the story where we left off last year!
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