Expeditioner

Elias Lönnrotin ensimmäinen runonkeruuretki Itä-Suomeen alkaa Sammatista ja jatkuu aina Valamoon ja Nurmekseen saakka päättyen lopulta Laukkoon. Lönnrot halusi "nähdä laajemmin …

The acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history’s greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurer’s death-defying navigation of the Amazon …

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship …

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En solig dag i juli 2012 kastade tre vänner loss från sin tillvaro hemma i Sverige. Simon, Tobias och Ludvig. De kastade loss i en liten segelbåt men med stora drömmar. Ingen …

'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black …

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight …

‘Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it’ – DIANA HENRY ‘Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply …

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. …

Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930) var en norsk polfarer, oppdager, diplomat og vitenskapsmann. I 1888 nsket Nansen utforske det indre av Gr nland. Tidligere ekspedisjoner, blant …