A few of the Big Names in the Adventure Business. Hover over the names for more information.
R.C. Halliburton: an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—36 cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career. His final and fatal adventure, an attempt to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, made him legendary.
Jim f***ing Hatzell!!
Jim Haztell: an American artist, actor, costumer, historian, film consultant, and badass. He’s one of the big inspirations for all of us at the Dominion Geographic Society.
William Duncan Strong: an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and adventurer noted for his application of the direct historical approach to the study of indigenous peoples of North and South America. Some say he was one of the main inspirations for “Indiana Jones”.
Osa & Martin Johnson: were American adventurers and documentary filmmakers. Learn more about them and their famous plane at www.safarimuseum.com/
Teddy Roosevelt: an American statesman, author, explorer, hunter, soldier, naturalist, snappy dresser, and 26th President of the United States.
Bessie Coleman: Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was an American civil aviator. She was the first female pilot of African American descent and is also the first Native American woman to hold a pilot license.
Hazel Lee: was a Chinese-American pilot who flew for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
Roy Chapman Andrews: an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum. His popular writings about his adventures made him famous.
FREDERICK MITCHELL-HEDGES.
F. A. Mitchell-Hedges: Explorer of Central America and master B.S. artist – author of several implausible books and finder of the implausible and famous Crystal Skull.
Percy Fawcett: a British artillery officer, archaeologist and South American explorer. Along with his eldest son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find “Z” – his name for an ancient lost city, which he and others believed to be El Dorado, in the uncharted jungles of Brazil.
Frederick Selous: a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was also a friend of Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, that dirtbag Cecil Rhodes, and Frederick Russell Burnham.
The Last Photo!
Robert Falcon Scott: Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–1904, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–1913.
*Note: one of the Dominion Geographic Society’s founding member’s (A.E. Sable’s) Great Grandfather served on Scott’s Discovery his entire life.
Ernest Shackleton: a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Richard Francis Burton: a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
Lord Baden-Powell: Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association. Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, or The Dowager Lady Baden-Powell: the founder of Scouting and Girl Guides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_explorers_and_travelers <–coming soon!