In the 19th century, biology, physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, geography, and paleontology took off like a rocket, as did social fields like psychology and anthropology. Unfortunately, many ...

But those expeditions in the late 1920s and early 1930s were just a slice of Pluschow's dashing life. It's a great tragedy of history to wonder what towering figures could have done if chance, fate, ...

Trudging through the dark with a dim lantern, a remarkable black man named Stephen Bishop tirelessly explored the world's largest cave system.

The perilous catastrophes of one of historys most epic adventures the lost voyage of Columbus The thrilling stories of men like Hudson Ribault and Bering who stopped at nothing to conquer an unknown ...