Many modern explorers, contend that Peary could not have reached the pole on foot in the time he claimed.

Instead, the site of Pompeii was riddled with tunnels by explorers, not by modern explorers as is often imagined, but by the Romans themselves after the eruption.

ISBN 978-1-875608-11-9 also known as Westprint Heritage Maps for modern explorers.

In fact, modern explorers have been unable to confirm or duplicate the claimed course of either American.

The guns would have moved any modern explorer to merriment; but such as they were I managed to do a good deal of execution with them.

He was perhaps the earliest of modern explorers in the upland of West Africa, and a pioneer of the European slave- and gold-trade of Guinea.

But no modern explorers went to the trouble of making a thorough investigation of the caves until 1958.

A popular route is north east to Sir Hubert Wilkins cottage, birthplace of perhaps the last modern explorer.

He was the first modern explorer in the coasts of the Northeast of Northern America, including the Labrador peninsula, which bears his name.

These days, the modern explorer must be as adept at public relations and fund-raising as surviving in the wilderness if he is to get his expedition out the front door.