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Today we are all too aware of the appalling damage inflicted by ISIS on the ancient sites of Iraq and Syria – the mindless destruction of the wondrous remains of one of the greatest civilizations of ancient times; a civilization...
'We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.'
– Ernest Shackleton on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Civil servant, naval secretary, developer, publicist, settler, author and all-round-adventurer John Barrow was understandably a man of many talents. Here we take a look at how these skills drove forward the rapid expansion of the British Empire at the turn of the 19th Century.
