
History & Society
The Great Expeditions
A Treatise on Ambition, Discovery, and the Uses of Failure
Richard Murdoch Montgomery
In print
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
- Editions
- eBook, Paperback
- Language
- English
- Printing
- To order, by Lulu
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