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You're totally right about Lewis and Clark being an adventure to witness. People just seemed to be tougher back then. We've just grown soft for the most part. Not all but most.

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What an adventure that would be. I sometimes think I was born in the wrong century. Imagine exploring some of the last "unexplored regions by Europeans" on earth. The uncertainty of what lies beyond, to believe or not to of the local superstitions, to wander and explore (hopefully with competent officers) and to have stories to pass on. Zulu is one of my fav movies and to live in an era of earthly land exploration would be amazing. Undersea and cave exploration is a different story but nothing would beat colonial era exploration. (Excluding colonial exploitation)

 

If you're interested, read Stigand (available free in eBook format from Google Books - I particularly recommend "Hunting the elephant in Africa".) Very intelligent observer, excellent writer, and has almost none of the pretentiously casual Victorian-era racism that most of his contemporaries had (though don't let that stop you from reading Patterson's "The Man Eaters of Tsavo", either.)

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