Barrow's Boys

From the author of Ninety Degrees North , a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars . In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic to Antarctica, their mission: to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day. Barrow’s B