The Great Adventurers

Captain Robert F. Scott led two expeditions to the Antarctic region: the Discovery Expedition that set a record of Latitude 82-degrees-South, and the fateful Terra Nova Expedition.

Christopher Colombus survived battles with Tunisian galleys, shipwrecks, imprisonment, and severe illness, eventually setting foot in the West Indies and South America.

Sir Walter's meteoric rise was followed by a slow and tragic fall from grace that eventually ended with the farcical Orinoco disaster, and subsequent death by execution.

Sir Francis Drake and the British victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 are inextricably linked, but there is more to this man's story.

Shackleton was a leader of men. Most memorable was his 1914 expedition to cross the Antarctic continent that turned nightmarish. Yet, through sheer endurance, all survived.