Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “Bi...-Bo...-”
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Hiram Bingham
b. 11-19-1875; Honolulu, Hawaii
d. 6-6-1956; Washington, DC

History professor, and later U.S. Senator, Hiram Bingham is credited with making Machu Picchu, Peru, known to the larger public in 1911.

• Lost Cities of the Incas

Isabella Bird Bishop
b. 10-15-1831; Boroughbridge, England
d. 10-7-1904; Edinburgh, Scotland

Isabella Bird Bishop was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with ailments that may have been psychogenic, for when she was doing exactly what she wanted she was almost never ill. Her real desire was to travel and so conducted a life of travel supported by writing about her travels.

• Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian rayahs: Volume 1
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Adriaen Block
b. c. 1567; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
d. 4-27-1627; Amsterdam

Adriaen Block, a Dutch trader and navigator, is known for making four voyages between 1611 and 1614 exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts and establishing early trade with the Native Americans.

On his fourth voyage his ship the Tyger was accidentally destroyed by fire. With help from the Lenape tribe, his crew built a 42-foot ship, the Onrust, which allowed them to rendezvous with one of the other expedition ships.

Block's 1614 map notes many features of the mid-Atlantic region for the first time and is the first application of the term New Netherland to the region. Block is considered the first European to enter Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River, and to determine that Manhattan and Long Island are islands. He named the narrow tidal strait in the East River of New York City the Hellegat, which has been Anglicized to Hell's Gate, and Block Island, Rhode Island is named after him.

• Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian rayahs: Volume 1
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Aimé Bonpland
b. 8-22-1773; La Rochelle, France
d. 5-4-1858; Argentina

Aime Bonpland was a French army surgeon, explorer, botantist and professor of natural history who collected and classified plants in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins. He was part of a Alexander von Humboldt expedition and imprisoned for ten years in Paraguay as an accused spy. A street in Buenos Aires and a crater on the moon are named for him, as well as many plants and animals.

• Measuring the World: A Novel

Daniel Boone
b. 11-2-1734; Berks County, Pennsylvania
d. 9-26-1820; Femme Osage Creek (now Defiance), Missouri

Daniel Boone, an American frontiersman and hunter, was one of the first folk heroes of the United States for his exploration and settlement of what is now the U.S. state of Kentucky, an area beyond the western borders of the Thirteen British Colonies.

In 1775 Boone blazed the Wilderness Road over an animal migration route and Native American hunting trail through a natural gap in the Appalachian Mountains (named the Cumberland Gap for the Duke of Cumberland in 1750 by Thomas Walker). Boone founded Boonesborough at the end of the trail, the first English speaking settlement in Kentucky. In 1799 Daniel Boone moved his family to Missouri. [Boone's Lick State Historic Site] [Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site]

Boone was a raised in a Quaker family, served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–83) with George Rogers Clark, and was elected to three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the Revolutionary War.

Of the great names which in our faces stare,
The General Boon, back-woodsman of Kentucky,
Was happiest amongst mortals any where;
For killing nothing but a bear or buck, he
Enjoyed the lonely vigorous, harmless days
Of his old age in wilds of deepest maze. ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1823

• Daniel Boone: His Own Story
• see Simon Kenton

Louis Antoine de Bougainville
b. 11-12-1729; Paris, France
d. 8-31-1811; Paris

Louis Antoine de Bougainville was a French navigator and military commander. He studied law, wrote a treatise on the integral calculus, was involved in the North American French and Indian War (1754–1763) and was the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the globe (1766–1769).

His ship also carried the first woman known to circumnavigate, Jeanne Baré, who boarded the ship disquised as a man named Jean Baret serving as a valet and assistant to the expedition's naturalist, Philibert Commerçon. Baré, as it turned out, was an excellent botantist herself, and the French recognized her service.

FYI ~ Commerçon named a flowering vine Bougainvillea.

• The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine De Bougainville, 1767-1768
• The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

Papaya Tree, Art Print, Michal Boym

Michal Piotr Boym
b. c. 1612; Lwów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
d. 1659

Michal Piotr Boym was a Jesuit priest, scientist, and early explorer, who is notable for his documention of the geography, flora and fauna of China.

• Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848
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