The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places

This is a collection of excerpts from famous works of exploration, and features almost all of the expected explorers from the 18th, 19th and early 20th century.
Many of the excerpts are excellent - Alexander Burns, Ed Hillary, Charles Doughty, Harry St John Bridger Philby, Wilfred Thesiger, Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley, Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Alexander von Humboldt.
Others were good, some were not so good.
It's fair to say if you have an interest in this genre, there is likely to some chapters in here you will really enjoy. Its a sizeable book, and for me it worked well to read in short stints, a chapter here and a chapter there.
Not sure about starring this - as I said parts were fantastic, parts were a bit meh, so overall I am going 3.5 stars (are we ever getting half stars Otis?), rounding down to 3.