Magda Biernat, Charlie's workshop at Alaska Wilderness Arts and Taxidermy, North Pole, Alaska, USA (2013)

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...

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...

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 '...