Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places written by John Keay and published by Constable. This book was released on 2002 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from jungle, desert or ice-cap, explorers - the celebrities of their day - were hailed as if back from the dead. Journalists fought for their stories and publishers rushed their narratives to a voracious audience.