The Last Secrets
John Buchan
Read by Steven Seitel
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and all that remains is but "amplifying our knowledge of the groyning and buttresses and stone-work." In this history of exploration, he tells of nine of those momentous final discoveries that placed the earth's last big secrets firmly on the map, from the mysterious "cloud city" of Lhasa, to the slopes--but not yet the summit--of Mount Everest. - Summary by Steven Seitel (6 hr 29 min)
Chapters
00 Dedication and Preface | 6:47 | Read by Steven Seitel |
01 Lhasa | 38:57 | Read by Steven Seitel |
02 The Gorges of the Brahmaputra | 16:28 | Read by Steven Seitel |
03 The North Pole, Part 1 | 39:51 | Read by Steven Seitel |
04 The North Pole, Part 2 | 21:06 | Read by Steven Seitel |
05 The Mountains of the Moon | 30:43 | Read by Steven Seitel |
06 The South Pole, Part 1 | 35:47 | Read by Steven Seitel |
07 The South Pole, Part 2 | 33:04 | Read by Steven Seitel |
08 Mount McKinley | 41:22 | Read by Steven Seitel |
09 The Holy Cities of Islam | 37:31 | Read by Steven Seitel |
10 The Exploration of New Guinea | 29:01 | Read by Steven Seitel |
11 Mount Everest, Part 1 | 29:25 | Read by Steven Seitel |
12 Mount Everest, Part 2 | 29:37 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Reviews
Not the usual John Buchan
Joy Breward
Unusual