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“ People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things”
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Growing up in an arid region in Southern Africa, it was common to encounter the roving tumbleweed, gambolling seemingly aimlessly across the sparse flat plains, collecting morsels of dust, leaving ashy wisps in its wake. We’ d chase them, wildly oblivious of their mission: The tumbleweed is a diaspore, a passenger carrier, dispersing seeds in open, arid ecologies.
It’ s the perfect metaphor for the archetypal explorer: the roamer, guided by the wind, venturing into vast, hostile territories, gathering new influences along the way, and leaving their own ideas to germinate behind them.
Grand odysseys – whether motivated by political expansion, trade, or simply an insatiable thirst for adventure – leave legacies. We pay homage to the great geographical pioneers in photographs( p14), journey along the iconic Trans-Siberian Railway( p48) and the Silk Road( p58), and into a land that the road forgot( p66) – a community that teeters on the brink of change in the shadow of China’ s new Silk Road Economic Belt.
Explorer Freya Stark said:“ Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature”. Sarah Marquis( p28) lives this message, having spent the last two decades walking the planet – solo – to remind us of our connection with Nature, a relationship that she fears we are in danger of losing completely. Establishing linkages between exploration and the environment are certainly not limited to her: We profile several activists who are using their respective expeditions to raise awareness of the effects of climate change( p76). We also take a look at Asia’ s new space race, and technological advances to harness resources outside our atmosphere – compelled, in part, by concerns of environmental and resource stress( p40).
What these explorers give us – beyond geographical information, cartographical archives, historical records and fascinating memoirs – is a composite chart of human endeavour. It’ s brave, bold, and beautiful – but requires us to tread carefully at the best of times.
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