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Adventurers & Explorers
Brooke Bond - 1973

Note:  Cards are approximately 1-3/8" x 2-5/8". Written by Tim Severin; illustrated
by John Beswick.

No.   Subject                                            Nationality / Affiliation

 1    John de Plano Carpini c. 1180-1252                 Italian
 2    Marco Polo 1254-1324                               Venetian
 3    Leif Ericcson tenth century A.D.                   Norseman
 4    Ibn Batuta 1304-1368                               Arab
 5    Francis Xavier 1506-1552                           Spanish
 6    Christopher Columbus 1451-1506                     Italian, employed by Spain
 7    Vasco da Gama c. 1460-1524                         Portuguese
 8    Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521                       Portuguese, employed by Spain
 9    Hernán Cortés 1485-1547                            Spanish
10    Francisco Pizarro c. 1474-1541                     Spanish
11    Francisco de Orellana c. 1511-1546                 Spanish
12    Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca c. 1490-c. 1557         Spanish
13    Sir Francis Drake c. 1543-1596                     English
14    John Davis c. 1550-1605                            English
15    Jacques Cartier 1491-1557                          French
16    René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle 1643-1687  Spanish
17    Abel Janszoon Tasman 1603-1659                     Dutch
18    William Dampier 1652-1715                          English
19    James Cook 1728-1779                               British
20    Mungo Park 1771-1806                               British
21    René Caillié 1799-1838                             French
22    Sir Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820                  British
23    Meriwether Lewis 1774-1809                         American
      William Clark 1770-1838
24    Sir Richard Burton 1821-1890                       British
25    John Hanning Speke 1827-1864                       British
26    David Livingstone 1813-1873                        British
27    Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904                 American and British
28    John McDouall Stuart 1815-1866                     British
29    Alexander von Humboldt 1769-1859                   German
30    Henry Walter Bates 1825-1892                       British
31    Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld 1832-1901       Finnish, but lived in Sweden
32    Fridtjof Nansen 1860-1930                          Norwegian
33    Robert Edwin Peary 1856-1920                       American
34    Roald Amundsen 1872-1928                           Norwegian
35    Robert Falcon Scott 1863-1912                      British
36    Ernest Henry Shackleton 1874-1922                  British
37    Sir John William Alcock 1892-1919                  British
      Sir Arthur Whitten Brown 1886-1948
38    Charles Lindbergh 1902-                            American
39    Amy Johnson 1903-1941                              British
40    Thor Heyerdahl 1914-                               Norwegian
41    Alain Bombard 1924-                                French
42    Sir Edmund Percival Hillary 1919-
      Norgay Tenzing 1914-
43    Joshua Slocum 1844-c. 1910                         American
44    Sir Francis Chichester 1901-1972                   British
45    Wilfrid Patrick Thesiger 1910-                     British
46    Walter William Herbert 1934-                       British
47    Auguste Piccard 1884-1962                          Swiss
48    Jacques Cousteau 1910-                             French
49    Yuri Gagarin 1934-1968                             Russian
50    Neil Alden Armstrong 1930-                         American

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