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  1. Alain de Botton _ The Art of Travel

    Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1} The knowledge of the Earth and its inhabitants. 2} The discovery of the higher laws of nature, which govern the universe, men, animals, plants, minerals. 3} The discovery of new forms of life. 4} The discovery of territories hitherto but imperfectly known, and their various productions. 5}The acquaintance with new species of the human race--- their manners, their language and the historical traces of their culture.' What may be accomplished in a lifetime---and seldom or never is.
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  2. Sean Stewart _ Resurrection Man

    Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you're just lost.
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  3. Captain Hank Bracker "The Exciting Story of Cuba"

    Although his log entries do not speak of America per se, a chart created by Admiral Zheng was used to make a detailed map of the world. A copy of this map, drawn in 1763, was found in a second-hand bookshop and was offered as evidence that Zheng's fleet was the first to discover America. At the age of 61, Admiral Zheng died aboard ship and befittingly was buried at sea
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    the Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.
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  5. Tahir Shah _ Travels With Myself

    Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
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