explorers

Home at last – a celebration of 200 years of the Travellers Club

29 September 2018 9:00 am

The Travellers Club was founded in 1819 to provide congenial surroundings for those who had ‘travelled outside the British Islands…

Barometer

30 January 2016 9:00 am

So near and yet so far Henry Worsley died in a Chilean hospital of peritonitis after being airlifted from Antartica,…

As grand as the Grand Canyon itself

14 December 2013 9:00 am

This book begins with Simon Winchester becoming a US citizen two years ago: ‘I swore a solemn oath before a…