Sat, Sep 8, 2007
In 1787 Her Majesty's Ship "Bounty" ventured into a journey which happened to be remembered as probably the most infamous in the history of seafaring. The voyage culminated in the mutiny. When the Captain Bligh's original logbooks were given to restoration in 2006, a big blow happened for historians and the archivars at Mitchell Library in Sydney: Bligh had apparently altered and therefore falsified the original Logbook, before the document was given to the judges of the court case on the most famous mutiny of all times.
Sat, Sep 15, 2007
In 1799 young Berlin aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks for a journey into the complete unknown. Accompanied by his French friend and soul mate Aimé Bonpland he travels the almost completely unexplored rain-forest regions of South America. The objective of Humboldt's mission: To prove there is a hidden inter-connection between the two big river systems of the sub-continet, between the Amazon and the Orinoco.
Sat, Sep 22, 2007
In 1895 the so far well protected Victorian lady Mary Kingsley came to a grave decision. Her father, a doctor and pastime ethnologist, had just dies, and her mother passed away only a few weeks later. Mary Kingsley at 32 years felt all on her own. Too old already, in those days, to have great chances on the marriage market. So grieving Mary came to the serious point: She wanted to conclude her father's ethnological studies. And travel the wildest parts of Africa.