Adventurer Collection

Flying Officer W E Johns - Biggles stories in Modern Boy
Advertisement in The Modern Boy magazine for the forthcoming series of stories written by Flying Officer W. E. Johns concerning the wartime adventures of Captain James Bigglesworth

Leander Starr Jameson
SIR LEANDER STARR JAMESON known as Dr Jameson Scottish-born physician; adventurer and administrator in South Africa

William Walker
WILLIAM WALKER American adventurer President of Nicaragua finally shot after a remarkable career

Beryl Markham (1902 1986), British-born Kenyan author, aviator, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. Photographed here, just after flying from Abingdon to Cape Breton Island

Robert Falcon Scott - at the Antarctic
Scott of the Antarctic. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) - who lost his life in an ill-fated race to be the first person to reach the South Pole

Sir Walter Raleigh
SIR WALTER RALEIGH adventurer and historian Date: 1554 - 1618

T Von Neuhoff / Magasin Pi
THEODOR VON NEUHOFF German adventurer who became THEODORE I, King of Corsica

Portrait bust of Casanova, adventurer and author
Portrait bust of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer and author

Photo of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, explorer
Colonel P H Fawcett, the celebrated explorer who disappeared in Central Brazil in 1925. 1925

Byrd Antarctic Expedition II - Dog team on dangerous ice
Byrd Antarctic Expedition II - Dog team crossing treacherous pressure ice. On his second expedition in 1934, Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957)

Alfonso De Albuquerque - Adventurer

Mont Blanc
A climber on the arete du Rochefort, Mont Blanc. The image is reproduced from a book of photographic studies entitled Haute Montagne'. Date: circa 1931

Princess Blucher goes ballooning
Evelyn Furstin Blucher von Wahlstatt (1876-1960) was an Englishwoman who married an anglophile Prussian aristocrat. She went on to spend the Great War years in Germany

Last Voyage Explorer Adventurer Discovery North
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Islamic adventurer known as Mahdi meditating in a cave from a Persian manuscript. Mehhdy. Mehhedi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by L

The first four Caliphs, heirs of Prophet Muhammad, in chronological order: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (top right), Umar ibn al-Khattab (top left), Uthman ibn Affan (bottom right)

Captain Paul Boyton, American showman and adventurer. 1893

Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, explorer, as part of an article by Sir John Squire. Fawcett led an expedition to central Brazil in 1925 and disappeared. 1953

Colonel P H Fawcett
Colonel Percy H Fawcett (1867 - 1925), British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. 1932

Lecture tour leaflet, Richard Cotton Carline
Leaflet for USA lecture tour, Richard Cotton Carline, official aerial war artist, adventurer, artist, lecturer. circa 1928

Cagliostro(Giuseppe Balsamo)
Giuseppe Balsamo(1743-1795), known as Cagliostro, Italian adventurer and occultist

Theodore Roosevelt on the Roosevelt River in Brazil
The Rio da Duvida (or River of Doubt ) in Brazil, re-named The Roosevelt River (Rio Roosevelt, sometimes Rio Teodoro) after exploration by President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt who probed

Ted McNamara and burning barrel, Sennen Cove, Cornwall
Ted McNamara, adventurer, drinking a toast to the barrel in which he was attempting to cross the Atlantic to Florida, until it capsized 50 yards from shore

Ted McNamara retrieving barrel, Sennen Cove, Cornwall
Ted McNamara, adventurer, and Customs men, retrieving the barrel in which he was attempting to cross the Atlantic to Florida, until it capsized 50 yards from shore

Captain James Cook - British explorer, captain and navigator
Captain James Cook - British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy (1728-1779). Date: 1776

Victorian scrap - Wanted nice little filly
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - Wanted nice little filly with " thou" or two. late 19th century

The Nose Game - Inquisitive Nose B10, Denotes Spirit of Enquiry. 1927

Cristobal de Olid (1488-1524). Spanish conqueror. Colored engraving, 1726. Library University of Barcelona. Spain

Michel Descazeaux
MICHEL DESCAZEAUX DU HALLY French adventurer in London, at one time imprisoned in the Fleet Prison. Date: 1710 - 1775

Sir Anthony Shirley (1565 - 1635) - Traveller, diplomat, adventurer, constantly in trouble in Persia, the Caribbean and elsewhere

John Smith - Kellogg
John Smith (?1580 - 1631) English colonist in America and military adventurer

MARINER 1827
A young sailor holding a sextant points out to sea at his ship. Date: 1827

HOBART-HAMPDEN 1822-1886
AUGUSTUS CHARLES HOBART-HAMPDEN Known as Hobart Pasa. English naval officer and adventurer. Date: 1822 - 1886

Wilhelm Von Grumbach
WILHELM VON GRUMBACH German adventurer Date: 1503 - 1566

Rudolf Von Slatin
RUDOLF ANTON KARL von SLATIN known as SLATIN PASHA Austrian soldier and adventurer Date: 1857 - 1932

Cagliostro (Figuier)
GIUSEPPE BALSAMO known as CAGLIOSTRO Italian adventurer Date: 1743 - 1795

Cagliostro / Silhouette
GIUSEPPE BALSAMO known as CAGLIOSTRO Italian adventurer and charlatan Date: 1743 - 1795

Christopher Columbus nears the New World
Christopher Columbus about to set his eyes on the New World for the first time, after his perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, sighting the Bahamas archipelago on 12th October, 1492

Tippoo Tib (1837-1905)
Photograph of Tippoo Tib, then Chief of the Manyema, c.1887. His real name was Hamid ibn Mohammed and he was an African-Arab adventurer and warrior, who controlled a large section of Central Africa

Jan De Weert
JAN DE WEERT Flemish military adventurer Date: CIRCA 1622

Paul Skalich
PAUL SKALICH German savant and adventurer Date: 1534 - 1575

Jas. Geo. Semple Lisle
JAMES GEORGE SEMPLE LISLE Adventurer in Brazil and elsewhere, died in prison in London. Date: 1759 - 1799

Benjamin Rumford
BENJAMIN THOMPSON, count RUMFORD scientist and adventurer Date: 1753 - 1814

Willem Baron Ripperda
JOHAN WILLEM baron and duke of RIPPERDA Dutch-Spanish adventurer Date: 1682 - 1737

Felix Prince Lichnowsky
FELIX MARIA VINCENZ ANDREAS, prinz LICHNOWSKY - Polish-born adventurer, caught up in the revolutionary events of 1848, member of Prussian Assembly but murdered by Frankfurt mob. Date: 1814 - 1848

Wilhelm Von Grumbach - 2
WILHELM VON GRUMBACH German adventurer in his 69th year. Date: 1503 - 1566

French Anarchist - possibly Zo d Axa or Han Ryner
A well-known French Anarchist - caricature by Phil May. This is likely to be either Alphonse Gallaud de la Perouse (18641930) (better known as Zo d Axa, an adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist)

FLOR, Roger de (1267-1305). Catalan knight and military adventurer, son of a German falconer.; Andronicus II Palaeologus (1258-1332). Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)

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