Welcome to the Virtual Exploration Society. Go over
to the bar and get a root beer, then have a seat by the fire.
Listen while the older members recount exciting true stories of
explorers who have risked life and limb in the persuit of knowledge.
Paddle down the Amazon with Percy Fawcett. Drive a dogsled to
the North Pole with Peary and Henson. Go to a mysterious isolated
island with the Burden Expedition to capture a living dragon.
Risk an ancient Egyptian curse with Howard Carter as he opens
the Tomb of King Tut.
The
Incredible Automobile Race of 1907-
In 1907 eleven men set out to take
the newly born automobile on an adventure across two continents
and over deserts and through swamps. Would it be up to the challenge?
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Crossing
the Atlantic By Air - On July 25th,
1909, Louis Bleriot stunned the world by using an airplane to
cross the English Channel. Only ten years later the first men
to fly the Atlantic would tackle a distance of over one-hundred
times greater than that of the Channel flight and incalculably
more dangerous.
Roy Chapman Andrews- Was this adventurer/scientist
the model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones?
Colonel Percy Fawcett- He charted the
wilderness of South America, but then disappeared without a trace.
To Catch a Dragon- Follow the Burdan Expedition to remote
and dangerous Komodo Island.
