Lovely Peeps, #Travel for me is restricted to my armchair at the moment - but I have no excuse to not still learn about this big, beautiful world of ours. 😊

Especially if a monk in #Venice in the mid-fifteenth century could do it well enough to create a #map of the world that *remains a reference for research to this day*. 😲

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fra-mauro-map

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Paul Gripp, one of the last great orchid explorers, dies at 93

https://misryoum.com/us/lifestyle/paul-gripp-one-of-the-last-great-orchid/

After retirement, Paul Gripp still visited the nursery often, helping with weeding, as he’s doing here in this file photo, or just talking with customers. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Orchid expert Paul Francis Gripp, a renowned orchid...

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Exploration Ships in the Polar Seas by François-Auguste Biard

via illustratus

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Arctic explorers after a successive hunt, 1869

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1751809/arctic-explorers-after-a-successive-hunt-1869

Silence In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge, 2017

What is silence?

Where can it be found?

Why is it now more important than ever?

In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out.

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The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 2018

What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How do they survive at the limits of human endurance? Who are the great pioneers of land, sea and space? Where next?

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