For centuries the North has beckoned the #adventurers , #explorers , escape artists, #activists, and everybody in-between. Now a #Buddhist monk. We get them all in the North! https://cabinradio.ca/289640/news/yellowknife/meet-the-monk-camping-along-yellowknifes-ingraham-trail/

#NWT #SubArctic #BorealForest #CanadianShield

I knew about Marco Polo, & even Ibn Fadlan—but today, my hero is Pytheas (c.350 to c. 306 BCE). Navigator/astronomer from the Greek colony of Massalia (Marseille).

All we know of him is from later writers. In his lost book "Ocean," they read of his great voyage in the last days of Alexander. Britain, the Baltic, the Arctic, polar sea ice, Celtic & Germanic tribes, the midnight sun…then across the Med to the Black Sea. First to suggest the moon pulls the tides.

#History #Explorers #ToBoldlyGo

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

#History #AtlasObscura #Cartography #FraMauro #Archeology #Medieval #MedievalHistory #Explorers #Legends #Mythology

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...

#Paul #Gripp #one #the #last #great #orchid #explorers #dies #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com