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Long Distance Voyageurs Polynesian Double Canoe Probably the most extraordinary voyages ever accomplished by man on Earth were not...

Going Nowhere Ktesias - Conman Conmen and fraudsters have been the bane of human existence for thousands of years but perhaps one ...

New Guinea Growth within Limits Farms: Highlands New Guinea In the 1920’s when people began to explore the interior of the isla...

The Big one And Silliness Mt. Denali / McKinley There are of course lies in the history of every nation, comfortable myths that...

The Nile and Diogenes Lake Victoria, Lake Albert and the Head Waters of the Nile  It is extremely unlikely that the overwhelmi...

 Diffusionistic Fantasies V What would they leave behind? One of the great questions concerning pre-Columbian contact between the Old and ...

Notes on Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus There is the the opinion that the explorer Christopher Columbus was an amazingly far-sig...

Around Africa according to Herodotus Some of the most amazing feats of exploration are very poorly known. For example it appears that the fi...

The Peglar Papers: An Addition After a posting I did concerning the disastrous Franklin Expedition and the Victory Point document, which is ...

Glimpse into a Disaster The Franklin Expedition, 1845-1848, was without a doubt the greatest Arctic exploration disaster in which every last...