Last Secrets, The by John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
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Last Secrets, The by John Buchan (1875 - 1940) is a arts podcast hosted by LibriVox. It has 13 episodes, with the latest published January 1970.
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
arts ·en ·13 episodes
01 Lhasa
02 The Gorges of the Brahmaputra
03 The North Pole, Part 1
04 The North Pole, Part 2
05 The Mountains of the Moon
06 The South Pole, Part 1
07 The South Pole, Part 2
08 Mount McKinley
09 The Holy Cities of Islam
10 The Exploration of New Guinea
11 Mount Everest, Part 1
12 Mount Everest, Part 2
00 Dedication and Preface
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