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History & Society

The Great Expeditions

A Treatise on Ambition, Discovery, and the Uses of Failure

Richard Murdoch Montgomery

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A history of the great expeditions — ambition, discovery, and what failure taught exploration.

From the History & Society shelf: narrative history with the apparatus of a treatise.

Reference
SSSP EXPEDITIONS
Series
History & Society
This edition
2026
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Language
English
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