By Magnus Mills
It's the starting of the century, and groups of explorers are racing throughout a chilly, windswept, abandoned land to arrive the furthest element from civilisation. it truly is, they locate, 'an quite lengthy way'. Johns and his males take the western course, alongside a rocky scree, gossiping, bickering and grumbling as they move. in the meantime, Tostig's males make their manner alongside the dry riverbed within the east - they're fewer, with simply 5 males and ten mules, and higher organised than their opponents. yet with Johns' group holding apace within the distance, the race is directly to achieve the Agreed Furthest element ...
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