The Explorers Podcast

The Explorers Podcast is about the greatest explorers and explorations in history.

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Fridtjof Nansen - Part 5 - The Fram Expedition:...
Nansen and Johansen make dash for the North Pole
47 min
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Fridtjof Nansen - Part 4 - The Fram Expedition:...
The Fram Expedition heads into the Arctic
30 min
128
Fridtjof Nansen - Part 3 - The Fram Expedition
Nansen sets sets out to be the first man to reach the North Pole
29 min
129
Fridtjof Nansen - Part 2 - The Greenland Expedi...
Nansen sets out to be the first person to cross Greenland
41 min
130
Fridtjof Nansen - Part 1 - Adventurer and Scien...
Nansen's early years, and his planning for his Greenland Expedition
33 min
131
Yuri Gagarin and the first man in space
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man into space
24 min
132
Brendan the Navigator
Saint Brendan goes searching for Paradise in the 6th century
29 min
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Everest 1922: Interview with author Mick Conefrey
Author Mick Conefrey discusses his latest book on the 1922 attempt on Mount Everest
50 min
134
Jacques Cartier - Part 2 - The St. Lawrence River
Cartier returns to the St. Lawrence region for a second and third time
32 min
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Jacques Cartier - Part 1 - The Gulf of St. Lawr...
French mariner Jacques Cartier sets out to explore North America
27 min
136
Richard Francis Burton - Part 7 - Adventures in...
The final years of Burton
43 min
137
Richard Francis Burton - Part 6 - The Source of...
The feud between Burton and Speke is brought to a public debate
28 min
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Richard Francis Burton - Part 5 - Lake Victoria
John Hanning Speke takes a side trek and comes upon Lake Victoria
29 min
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Richard Francis Burton - Part 4 - Lake Tanganyika
Burton goes searching for the great inland lake of East Africa
37 min
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Richard Francis Burton - Part 3 - The Somalilan...
Burton attempts to reach the city Harar
35 min
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Richard Francis Burton - Part 2 - Medina and Mecca
Burton goes undercover to go on his Hadj
35 min
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Richard Francis Burton - Part 1 - India
Burton's early years, including his time in India
34 min
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Teddy Roosevelt and the River of Doubt - Part 4
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition comes to a conclusion
45 min
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Teddy Roosevelt and the River of Doubt - Part 3
Teddy Roosevelt and and Cândido Rondon begin the descent of the River of Doubt
41 min
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Teddy Roosevelt and the River of Doubt - Part 2
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition head across the Brazilian Highlands to the headwaters of the River of Doubt
33 min
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Teddy Roosevelt and the River of Doubt - Part 1
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition seeks to map a recently discovered river in the heart of the Amazon
35 min
147
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and the Exploration of ...
Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo becomes the first non-native to reach Upper California
50 min
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James Beckwourth - Mountain Man
James Beckwourth goes from being a slave to one of the most colorful men of the American West
53 min
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Ernest Shackleton - Part 11/11 - The Quest Expe...
The Quest Expedition and the Legacy of Shackleton
59 min
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Ernest Shackleton - Part 10 - Endurance: Across...
Shackleton must cross the mountains of South Georgia to reach civilization
57 min