Skilled explorer or overreaching dilettante? Crusading abolitionist or violent murderer? General with the soul of a country on his mind? Or self-centered opportunist only interested in tapping the ...

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But those expeditions in the late 1920s and early 1930s were just a slice of Pluschow's dashing life. It's a great tragedy of history to wonder what towering figures could have done if chance, fate, ...

James rewrites stories of the greatest explorers in his inimitable, entertaining way, beginning with Columbus, and discovering how he merely 'stumbled across' two continents and took the spoils. James ...