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    Sep 10, 2020 1 minute
    Matt Elton

    Welcome to this special issue of BBC World Histories magazine, following in the footsteps of some of history’s greatest pioneers.

    Combining features originally published between, , and Of course, it’s not only the journeys themselves that are interesting, but also the motivations that fuelled them: from , each has something to say about the period in which it was undertaken.

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