A trip in the tracks of explorer EF Knight becomes an unexpectedly poignant portrait of a passionate family in Mikey Corker’s compelling film Ordinarily you don’t expect emotional depths from a ...

A brand new three-part series Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip will see Ruby Wax, Melanie Brown and Emily Atack re-trace the footsteps of Yorkshire-born Victorian explorer Isabella Bird. Ahead ...

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As female trailblazers go, pioneering explorer Isabella Bird had given herself a mountain to climb. Scoffed at by both men and women in the Victorian era, the Yorkshire lass, plagued by ill health ...

EVEN by Victorian standards, the exploits of Major Percy Stewart were remarkable. As a big game hunter and collector, he circumnavigated the globe eight times and survived brushes with elephants and ...