THE NORTH POLE; BY COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY

In the foreground is a man carrying a long pole over his left shoulder. He wears a blue hat and brown coat and black trousers with gaiters. His mouth is open as if he was calling o...

To start from Liverpool on North Pole expedition ._x000D_ Grettir Algarsson , the young British Columbian born explorer , who starts from Liverpool in May on an expedition to the N...

Photograph of Sir William Peel's statue in Eden Gardens from 'Views of Calcutta and Barrakpore was taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Sir William Peel (1824-1858) was a son of Si...

Oil painting depicting a temple near Jaipur by Marianne North, dated December 1878.Initially Marianne North (1830-1890) only painted botanical specimens and travelled around the wo...

Commerce AT the North Pole _x000D_ Canadian explorer _x000D_ _x000D_ M Vilhjalmur Stefansson the Arctic explorer who has announced his intention to give up exploring and become a '...

Oil painting on paper by Marianne North of Vrindavan, dated 2 November 1878. Marianne North visited India in 1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst there.Vrindavan is a pi...