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Eyewitness Accounts My Life as an Explorer
Written by the people who could say 'I was there!' My Life as an Explorer is a classic of Polar literature, written by the first man to set foot on the South Pole. Amundsen's …
Eyewitness Accounts With Scott in the Antarctic
'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic in 1910 - …
Eyewitness Accounts Shackleton's Last Voyage
On 17 September 1921, the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton left London aboard his ship Quest, bound for the Antarctic on what would prove to be his final voyage. His second in …
Eyewitness Accounts The Source of the Nile
The source of the River Nile was one of the great mysteries of the Victorian age. On an expedition with Richard Burton which reached Lake Tanganyika, Speke went on alone to …
Eyewitness Accounts My Adventures as a Spy
As a young Army officer, Robert Baden-Powell was stationed in Malta as an aide to his uncle, General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth. While there, he also served as intelligence officer …
Eyewitness Accounts Pilgrimage to Meccah
The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century was a pilgrimage to Mecca, which he carried out disguised as a Pashtun tribesman …
Eyewitness Accounts I Was a Kamikaze
Ryuji Nagatsuka did not know, when he made an application to become a pilot in October 1943, that by the following autumn Japan’s situation in the war would be so critical that the …
Eyewitness Accounts Diary of a Nursing Sister
By the time of the First World War, nursing had become vital. The quality of medical care available to British soldiers had improved immeasurably since the days of Florence …
Eyewitness Accounts I was a Slave in Russia
“It is hard to describe a nightmare adequately, unless you can say how the day had been before the night fell.” In late 1945, John H. Noble was arrested by Soviet occupation forces …
Eyewitness Accounts Battles of The Crimean War
The allied expeditionary force landed on the beaches of Calamita Bay, on the south-west coast of the Crimean Peninsula, in September 1854. The campaign that followed would create …
Eyewitness Accounts I Was a Tiger Hunter
‘And, as [the tigress] turned her head back, gazing towards the bearers, I aimed at her neck … and fired.’ J. Moray Brown introduces his experiences of shikar, or game hunting, one …
Eyewitness Accounts London's Great Plague
On 30 April 1665, the diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the first rumours that the bubonic plague was spreading through London: 'Great fears of the sickness here in the City - God …