Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skilled explorer or overreaching dilettante? Crusading abolitionist or violent murderer? General with the soul of a country on his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 19th century, biology, physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, geography, and paleontology took off like a rocket, as did ...

But those expeditions in the late 1920s and early 1930s were just a slice of Pluschow's dashing life. It's a great tragedy of history to wonder what towering figures could have done if chance, fate, ...

In 1838, a teenage slave from Kentucky was given a rare opportunity. Rather than breaking his back in the fields with his peers, he was tasked with mapping Kentucky's Mammoth Cave. Trudging through ...

James rewrites stories of the greatest explorers in his inimitable, entertaining way, beginning with Columbus, and discovering how he merely 'stumbled across' two continents and took the spoils. James ...

The perilous catastrophes of one of historys most epic adventures the lost voyage of Columbus The thrilling stories of men like Hudson Ribault and Bering who stopped at nothing to conquer an unknown ...