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Global voyager and hunter traveling across North and South America and Australia, writing about her adventures Kira Salak: American 1971: Travelled in Mali and Papua New Guinea Annemarie Schwarzenbach: Swiss 1908: 1942: Journalist and photographer, travelled to Iran, Afghanistan, Africa Eliza Scidmore: American 1856 1928
Jean Batten in 1937. Aleko Konstantinov – a cosmopolitan traveler, was the first Bulgarian to write about his visits to Western Europe and America. His visits to the World Exhibitions of Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris, General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891) in Prague and World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 – including a visit to Niagara Falls – provided Bulgarian ...
Nationality Sailed for Name First voyage of exploration Last voyage of exploration Arctic [1] North Atlantic Indian Pacific South Atlantic Southern; Portuguese
The trips aboard the ships Susan Constant, Discovery, and the Godspeed, and the settlement itself, were sponsored by the London Company, whose "adventurers" (investors) hoped to make a profit from the resources of the New World. The settlers suffered terrible hardships in its early years, including sickness, starvation, and native attacks.
Afrikaans; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Беларуская; Български; Bosanski; Català; Čeština
Washington Irving wrote about him, making him famous in his lifetime. The Bonneville Salt Flats are named after him. Brown, John: 1817–1889 1841–1849 United States: Fur trapper, trader, rancher, and merchant in and around Pueblo, Colorado. Brown, Kootenay: 1839–1916 1862–1910 Ireland
Frederick Vaughan Kirby was a soldier, traveller, big-game hunter and collector of natural history specimens. Irish born, Kirby hunted extensively throughout Portuguese East Africa and the eastern Transvaal until the Anglo-Boer War, publishing two books on his hunting experiences, In haunts of wild game in 1896 and Sport in east central Africa ...
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqua-lung.. James Cameron (born 16 August 1954); Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American Marine Biologist and Author.; John Chatterton (born 1954), co-discoverer of the Pirate Ship of Joseph Bannister, Golden Fleece