- Adventurer Francesca Chiorando travels around the world to places like Iceland and Morocco, and discovers some of the world's most challenging and terrifying places. She uncovers fascinating stories, meets remarkable people, and investigates long-standing mysteries: human and natural events that have puzzled communities for generations.
- When you stop to think about our planet for a moment, it's possible to realise what an incredible place the earth is. How does nature affect human beings, how does our behaviour influence our actions and thoughts and are there other forces at work?
Adventurer Francesca Chiorando travels the globe to discover some of the world's most challenging and terrifying places, uncovering fascinating stories, meeting remarkable people and investigating long-standing mysteries; human and natural events that have puzzled us for generations.
How are people shaped by the place they live? Whether it is a densely populated city or a wilderness, Francesca discovers that the landscape and environment dictates a way of life. Perhaps the residents have always lived here, or maybe they have been drawn from elsewhere. When Francesca visits Iceland, to uncover the myths and legends of the land of fire and ice, she goes on an epic search for Trolls.
Starting her quest in Naples, Italy Francesca is drawn to a city famed by natural disaster - devastating volcanic eruptions from Mount Vesuvius and by human actions - violent organised crime in the shape of the Mafia.
Francesca loves to read and is fascinated by macabre tales of death and destruction. Her trail leads to the old city of Edinburgh, Scotland where she uncovers the strange story of body snatchers, Burke and Hare who terrified the city by stealing corpses and selling them to a local surgeon. With a local guide, she walks in the footsteps of Scotland's most famous serial killers and is challenged to see if she could make it as a body snatcher herself.
Despite being a small nation, England still has areas of wilderness and outstanding natural beauty. Much of it is found in the far south-west, the county of Cornwall, so remote that even now residents still consider themselves more Cornish than English. As recently as the 19th century, this was a place where the police would rarely go, it was largely lawless and due to harsh taxation it was home to pirates! A trade in contraband goods thrived in the coves and isolated beaches. It is also an area famed for witchcraft and Francesca is invited to attend an after-dark witch's coven.
In America, Francesca is entranced by Voodoo in New Orleans while spending time with gang members displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and she journeys to the Sahara desert where her guide introduces her to a nomadic family, learning how to survive in some of the harshest conditions on the planet.
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