* Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski ( 1878 — 1945 )-Polish writer and explorer

The explorer Ferdynand Ossendowski wrote a book in 1922 titled Beasts, Men and Gods.

Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski ( born May 27, 1876, Ludza (), Russia, now Latvia-January 3, 1945, Żółwin ) was a Polish writer, journalist, traveler, globetrotter, explorer and university professor.

Corto Maltese's character is based on a famous Polish adventurer, author and explorer Ossendowski, who collaborated among others with Ungern von Sternberg.

An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

Scottish explorer Mungo Park wrote: " The slaves in Africa, I suppose, are nearly in the proportion of three to one to the freemen.

In the book A New Voyage to Carolina ( 1709 ), the explorer John Lawson wrote the following, stating the ruins of lost colony were still visible:

A Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo wrote about these treasures being mined at a place of “ little hills.

* The Golden Gate ( the strait that connects the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay ), was named on 1 July 1846 by explorer John C. Frémont who wrote, " To this Gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate ; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.

Harry Johnston was the very model of the multi-talented African explorer ; he exhibited paintings, collected flora and fauna ( he was instrumental in bringing the okapi to the attention of science ), climbed mountains, wrote books, signed treaties, and ruled colonial governments.

The first recorded European explorer to travel the Trace in its entirety was an unnamed Frenchman in 1742, who wrote of the trail and its " miserable conditions ".

The British explorer John Wood, writing in 1838, described Bam-i-Duniah ( Roof of the World ) as a " native expression " ( presumably Wakhi ), and it was generally used for the Pamirs in Victorian times: In 1876 another British traveller, Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, employed it as the title of a bookand wrote in Chapter IX:

He wrote and starred in the BBC Four docudrama The Worst Journey in the World, based on the memoir by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

D. Henze wrote the following about an exhibition at the Deutsches Museum entitled Sven Hedin, the last explorer:

The explorer Francisco Hernández wrote that chocolate beverages helped treat fever and liver disease.

Edward Bland, an explorer who accompanied Abraham Wood's expedition in 1650, wrote that in Opechancanough's day, there had been a falling-out between the " Chawan " chief and the weroance of the Powhatan ( also a relative of Opechancanough's family ).

In 1840, explorer Captain Thomas Farnham wrote that " There is probably no spot of equal extent in the whole continent of America which contains so many of these muchsought animals.

" Robert Walker Smith in his " History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania " ( Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883 ) reported that John Heckewelder ( a Moravian writer, explorer, and historian who wrote about the Lenape and other tribes in Western Pennsylvania in the 18th century ) claimed that the name is " corrupted from Gieschgumanito, signifying, make daylight.

After Sadlier was mentioned in an article in Melbourne ’ s The Herald Sun his sister wrote to the Cave Clan explaining that her brother was in fact a " builder of drains ", and not an explorer.

There is no other written information on the Great Mosque until the French explorer René Caillié visited Djenné in 1828 and wrote " In Jenné is a mosque built of earth, surmounted by two massive but not high towers ; it is rudely constructed, though very large.

Legend says that the name Barrancabermeja comes from a description by the Spanish 16th century explorer Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, who wrote that the area was characterized by " reddish ravines " or " reddish embankments ," which is Spanish amounts to " unas barrancas bermejas " Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

The spit was named by explorer George Vancouver in 1792, who wrote: " The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in ths British Channel, I called New Dungeness.

The famous explorer Marco Polo of the 12th Century wrote that Sri Lanka is the finest island in the whole world.

Gro is a famous explorer and wrote a book about his travels through Impland.

Jean-Marie Chopin, a French explorer of the Caucasus, visited there in 1830 and wrote of a regimen restraining from meat, wine, youth or women.

Another explorer visited the monastery in 1850 and wrote of how manuscripts were still being copied manually.

In 1881 German explorer " Carl Liche " wrote an account in the South Australian Register of encountering a sacrifice performed by the " Mkodo " tribe of Madagascar:

The explorer Captain Cook wrote of its song " it seemed to be like small bells most exquisitely tuned ".

In 2004 polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes published a biography which was a strong defence of Scott and an equally forthright rebuttal of Huntford ; the book is dedicated " To the Families of the Defamed Dead ".

Fiennes was later criticised by the reviewer of another book for the personal nature of his attacks on Huntford, and for his apparent assumption that his own experiences as a polar explorer gave him unique authority.

Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition, co-named after its leader, Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.

* Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.

* July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist during the golden age of comics and an explorer ( d. 2000 )

The British explorer John Hanning Speke recorded one such account in his book Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile:

Besides, there are a book ( The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition 1872-74 ) and paintings by Payer-probably the only paintings of a polar expedition created by the explorer himself.

Haggard also owed a considerable debt to Joseph Thomson, the Scottish explorer whose book Through Masai Land was a hit in January 1885.

He had taken the name from Nicollet's book, in which the French explorer compared the ' Mahkato " or Blue Earth River, with all its tributaries, to the water nymphs and their uncle in the German legend of Undine.

* Ahmed Pasha Hassanein ( 1889 – 1946 ) – Egyptian explorer, diplomat, one of two non-European winners of Gold Medal of Royal Geographical Society in 1924, King's chamberlain, fencing participant to 1924 Olympics, photographer, author and discoverer of Jebel Uweinat, and writer of " The Lost Oases " book in three languages.

The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader ( she is borrowed from Disraeli's novel Sybil ); Edward " Leviathan " Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer ; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure with a real career, as portrayed in the book, as a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities " undertaken in the service of Her Majesty ".

In his book, French ethnologist and explorer Henri Lhote described his two journeys to the Tree of Ténéré.

In 1940, Morison published Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century, a book that presaged his succeeding publications on the great explorer, Christopher Columbus.

The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542.

* Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1975 film Dersu Uzala, based on a book by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, describes the friendship of a Russian explorer and his Nanai guide named Dersu Uzala.

* Samuel Bellamy is the main subject of two non-fiction books, " The Pirate Prince " and " Expedition Whydah ," by explorer Barry Clifpraised, and a non-fiction book, " The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down ," by Colin Woodard, published by Harvest Book / Harcourt, Orlando FL, 2007.

He peruses a book from his own library with an image of the idol, drawn by an explorer: it confirms that one of the ears is damaged, while the one back in the museum is not.

Tintin learns that the idol was offered to a previous explorer called Walker ( who also happens to be the author of the book " Travels in the Americas " ( London, 1875 ) Tintin had read earlier ) as a token of friendship during his stay with the tribe.

In his book " On the Trail of Ancient Man " ( 1926 ), Roy Chapman Andrews ( an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History ) cites Mongolian Prime Minister Damdinbazar who in 1922 described the worm allergorhai-horhai:

In a 1988 Young All-Stars comic book, Arthur Gordon Pym is a 19th century explorer who discovered the lost Arctic civilization of the alien Dyzan.

James Gurney ( born June 14, 1958 ) is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th century explorer ’ s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs.