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"In the glow of love which Christianity inspires, I soon resolved to devote my life to the alleviation of human misery." - Extract from Livingstone's ... More

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Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. ... More

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On New Year's Day 1908, the ship Nimrod set off for the mysterious regions of the Antarctic. The leader of the small expedition was Ernest Shackleton ... More

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This is an epic visual guide to the most intrepid explorers in history. Written in association with the RGS, "Explorers" brings you stories of great ... More

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"Story of Vasco Da Gama".

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Louis - Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729 - 1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and ... More

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In 1802 a Frenchman and an Englishman famously encountered each other off the shores of South Australia. The voyages of discovery of Nicolas Baudin ... More

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Africa in the mid-nineteenth century was still very much an unknown continent, its vast lands a source of unceasing interest and mystery to the white ... More

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The events of Florence Baker's life read like a novel. Born in the 1840s into an aristocratic family who was murdered in the Hungarian revolution, ... More

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Home, to Malka, is a Jewish shtetel in pre-war Poland. There life centered around tradition and holidays which were kept and maintained in the same ... More

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The achievements of James Bruce are the stuff of legends. In a time when Africa was an unexplored blank on the map, he discovered the source of the ... More

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One hundred and fifty years ago a young Maltese from the city of Senglea, Andrea De Bono, went to live in darkest Africa. He spent almost twenty ... More

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Bill Tilman was part of the Himalayan climbing partnership with Eric Shipton, and later developed a new name for himself as the idiosyncratic skipper ... More

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Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts ... More

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