To create puzzles for the book, go to
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To find more pictures, use Google. Use Google Image Search, or type the name of the topic (in quotation marks if more than one word), and add +image; e.g., “Prester John” +image. |
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Afonso de Albuquerque (explorer)
Note: For this individual your best resource is the text encyclopedias NOT Internet sites.
| Afonzo de Albuquerque - page from The Catholic Encyclopedia |
| The Fall of Melaka - has illustrations |
Heinrich Barth (explorer)
| Discoverers Web - Heinrich Barth |
| A Selection of plates from Henry Barth's Travels and Discoveries |
James Bruce (1730-1794)
| Overview for James Bruce - includes a portrait |
| James Bruce - lengthy newspaper article on the explorer |
| Bruce International - Bruce family web site article on James Bruce, based on a biography of him |
Richard Burton
| BBC - History - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) |
René Caillie (explorer)
| Exploring Africa - Island 4 |
| Use Edit, Find to get to the section on René Caillie. Be sure to click on the link to his drawing of Timbuktu in 1827 |
Vasco da Gama (explorer)
| Modern History Sourcebook: Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498 CE |
| The Mariners' Museum |
| Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons |
Prester John (also Prestor John)
| The Myth of Prester John |
| Medieval Sourcebook: Mandeville on Prester John |
Dr. David Livingstone (explorer/humanitarian)
| Forbidden Territory @ National Geographic.com |
| Dr. Livingstone: Man of Africa |
Mungo Park (explorer)
| Exploring Africa - Island 4 |
| Selections from the Rex B. Grey Collection |
| Mungo Park - Great Explorers |
Commodore Matthew Perry
| Modern History Sourcebook: Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan, 1854 |
| Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan - has "Japanese woodblock prints that represent Commodore Matthew C. Perry's journey to and treaty with Japan." |
| Black Ship Scrolls - Discussion of Perry's expedition to Japan with illusttations. |
Cecil Rhodes (Debeers Diamonds)
| Cecil John Rhodes -Site devoted to Rhodes. Some good pictures. |
| Guardian Century 1899-1909 Death of Mr. Cecil Rhodes - This is the article from the newspaper announcing Rhodes's death and summarizing his life. |
John Speke (explorers)
| BBC - History - John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) |
Henry M. Stanley (journalist)
| Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Henry M. Stanley: How I Found Livingstone, 1871 - excerpt from Stanley's book |
| Henry Morton Stanley Biography - this site from Atlantic magazine has a picture, brief bio, and excerpts from his writings |
Alexandrine Tinne (explorer)
| Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise Tinne |
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