Andrew Taylor
Uncharted Waters
The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea
By Jordan Goodman
Faber & Faber 347pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
The English Dane
By Sarah Bakewell
Chatto & Windus 324pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
It’s refreshing, and unusual, to pick up a couple of books about travel and exploration that don’t leave the reader feeling slightly battered and inadequate. Who are these people who fill the pages with their determination, bravery and derring-do, and who greet each new disaster and discovery with a finely turned and incisive comment in their diaries?
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