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CALENDARS

1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendars
Travel Calendar

Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendars
Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendar

Destinations
Destinations Calendar




BOOKS ABOUT EXPLORERS

Around the World in a Hundred Years
Around the World
in a Hundred Years:
From Henry the Navigator
to Magellan


Nat'l Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers
Nat'l Geographic
World Atlas
for Young Explorers


Women of Discovery
Women of Discovery:
A Celebration of
Intrepid Women Who
Explored the World


As Told at the Explorers Club
As Told at
the Explorers Club:
More than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure


Explorers South America
Explorers of
South America


Nat'l Geographic's Beyond 2000
Nat'l Geographic's
Beyond 2000
VHS




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “Br...-By...-”
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.


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Notable Explorers ~

Pierre-Paul Savorgnan De Brazza
St. Brendan the Navigator
Jim Bridger

James Bruce
Joseph Antoine Bruni D'Entrecasteaux
Richard F. Burton

Richard E. Byrd
John Byron



Pierre-Paul Savorgnan De Brazza, Photographic Print
Pierre-Paul Savorgnan De Brazza, Photographic Print

Pierre-Paul Savorgnan De Brazza
b. 1-26-1852; Papal States (later naturalize French citizen)
d. 9-14-1905; Dakar, Senegal (dysentery, possible poisoning)

Pierre-Paul Savorgnan De Brazza, who was interested in exploration even as a child, “opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo that eventually led to French colonies in Central Africa”.

Brazza had great personal charm, talking and trading his way into Africian tribal alliances. He was dismissed from his post as the governor-general of the French Congo in 1886 for treating the natives “too well”, according to European standards.

The capital of the Republic of the Congo was named Brazzaville. FYI - at the end of the movie Casablanca Detective Renault suggests to Rick that they join the Free French forces at Brazzaville.


St. Brendan in His Ship, from the German Translation of "Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis," c. 1476, Giclee Print
St. Brendan in His Ship, from the German Translation of "Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis,
Giclee Print

Saint Brendan the Navigator
b. c. 484; County Kerry, Ireland
d. c. 578; Ireland

Saint Brendan the Navigator was renowned for his semi-legendary quest to the Land of Delight. St. Brendan is the Patron Saint of sailors and mariners.

Saint Brendan and The Voyage Before Columbus


Jim Bridger, Photographic Print
Jim Bridger,
Photographic Print

Jim Bridger
b. 3-17-1804; Richmond, VA
d. 7-17-1881; Kansas City, MO

Mountain man, trapper, scout and guide Jim Bridger explored and worked the Western United States during the 1820s through the mid 1860s.

Bridger found what would eventually be known as Bridger's Pass, which shortened the Oregon Trail by 61 miles from the South Pass trail. The Bridger Pass would later be the chosen route for both the Union Pacific Railroad and Interstate 80.

He also blazed the Bridger Trail, an alternate route from the dangerous Bozeman Trail from Wyoming to the gold fields of Montana.

FYI ~ Hugh Glass, after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead, hunted Bridger down to avenge his abandonment.


James Bruce, the Discoverer of the Source of the Blue Nile, Giclee Print
James Bruce, the Discoverer
of the Source of the Blue Nile,
Giclee Print

James Bruce
b. 12-14-1730; Kinnaird, Stirlingshire, Scotland
d. 4-27-1794; Scotland

James Bruce, who traveled more that a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, traced the origins of the Blue Nile.

In 1790 Bruce published his Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773.


Joseph Antoine Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, Giclee Print
Joseph Antoine Bruni D'Entrecasteaux,
Giclee Print

Joseph Antoine Bruni D'Entrecasteaux
b. 11-8-1737; Aix-en-Provence, France
d. 7-21-1793; at sea

Naval officer Bruni D'Entrecasteaux died of scurvy while searching for Jean François de Galaup, comte de la Pérouse, who had not been heard of since leaving Botany Bay in March 1788.


Portrait of Richard Burton, Orientalist and Explorer, circa 1861, Giclee Print
Richard Burton,
Orientalist and Explorer,
circa 1861,
Giclee Print

Richard F. Burton
b. 3-19-1821; Torquay, Devon, England
d. 10-20-1890; Trieste, Italy

Richard F. Burton was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika, in 1858 with John Hanning Speke.

He also travelled to Mecca in disguise in 1853, and authored numerous articles and books.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Richard Burton translation)


Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd before His Trip to the Arctic, 1926, Photographic Print
Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd before His Trip to the Arctic, 1926,
Photographic Print

Richard E. Byrd
b. 10-25-1888; Winchester, VA
d. 3-11-1957

Richard E. Byrd was a pioneering American polar explorer and aviator acclaimed as the first to fly over the North Pole in 1926. This distinction has proven untrue although at the time it permitted Byrd to become internationally recognized and to raise funds for a South Pole flight, which succeeded. Byrd was also attempting to be the first to solo non-stop across the Atlantic but was beaten by Charles Lindbergh.

Antarctica posters
Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard E. Byrd


John Byron known as 'Foul-Weather Jack,' English Navigator and Grandfather of Poet Byron, Giclee Print
John Byron known as
'Foul-Weather Jack,'
English Navigator and
Grandfather of Poet Byron,
Giclee Print

John Byron
b. 11-8-1723; Nottinghamshire, England
d. 4-10-1786; London

John Byron circumnavigated the globe with George Anson in the disastrous 1740-44 voyage when only 188 men survived from the original 1,854. Between June 1764 and May 1766 Byron completed his own circumnavigation of the globe as captain of HMS Dolphin.

Byron was known as “Foul Weather Jack” for his many voyages in bad weather.

Byron was the father of John “Mad Jack” Byron and grandfather of the poet Lord Byron.

The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (1768)


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