Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “Br...-By...-”
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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.

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
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
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
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.

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)

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
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)