Join Huw Lewis-Jones as he delves into the journals and sketchbooks of some of the world’s most remarkable travellers, naturalists, oceanographers, astronauts, archaeologists, mountaineers and explorers from the 16th century to the present day, among them Captain Scott, Edmund Hillary, Jan Morris, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin. He also tells us a few things about our very own maps from our Edward Stanford cartographic collection.
You think selfies are a new thing? Find out which explorer wanted to make sure his beard was sufficiently frosty before taking one in 1909.
