Expeditions: popular accounts

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'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts.

'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers––and fortune hunters––than the lost city of Timbuktu.

British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - 1913.

In June 2016, Oscar Scafidi and Alfy Weston set out to complete the first ever source-to-sea expedition along Angola's longest river, the Kwanza.

'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track.

The Bear Hunter is the fascinating and unlikely seven-year story of one football fan's devotion to his team.