“The trouble is, you were born 100 years too late!” is a refrain familiar to those of us who, back in the day, might count themselves the last of the “classic” explorers. We’re talking about those in the mould of Mary Kingsley and Dr Livingstone, who brought word of whole landscapes new to us.
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