Comments on: Interactive map of "history's greatest journeys" http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: swchurchill http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266497 swchurchill Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266497 How about the fact that Charles Lindburg is listed, but no love for <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcock_and_brown">Alcock and Brown</A> who were the <strong>first</strong> to fly across the Atlantic? How about the fact that Charles Lindburg is listed, but no love for Alcock and Brown who were the first to fly across the Atlantic?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266498 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266498 whilst we're at it how about William Dampier. His journal New Voyage Round the World, written in 1697, is a great read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier whilst we’re at it how about William Dampier. His journal New Voyage Round the World, written in 1697, is a great read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier

]]> By: Battlehobo4000 http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266499 Battlehobo4000 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266499 No Lief Erikson? More anti-viking rhetoric No Lief Erikson? More anti-viking rhetoric

]]> By: SeanDoyle http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266760 SeanDoyle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266760 What about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanzang" rel="nofollow">Xuanzang</a>? He's both real and an inspirational figure for a great Ming dynasty novel: He traveled from China to India in 629.. took 17 years to come back. He mastered many languages and brought back many sutras. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West" rel="nofollow">Journey to the West</a> he's a fictional character aided by several magical helpers (including the monkey king). What about Xuanzang? He’s both real and an inspirational figure for a great Ming dynasty novel:

He traveled from China to India in 629.. took 17 years to come back. He mastered many languages and brought back many sutras.

In Journey to the West he’s a fictional character aided by several magical helpers (including the monkey king).

]]> By: buddy66 http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266516 buddy66 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266516 What additions to my reading list! Thanks all. What additions to my reading list! Thanks all.

]]> By: jgs http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266518 jgs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266518 Hello? Ibn Batuta? Hello? Ibn Batuta?

]]> By: tim http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266780 tim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266780 Hey, what about my Expedition To Fetch The Mail? It's a mile or so each way and I do it on *foot*! Watching for bears and cougars at all times, not to mention incompetent boonies drivers. I don't even take a map.... Hey, what about my Expedition To Fetch The Mail? It’s a mile or so each way and I do it on *foot*! Watching for bears and cougars at all times, not to mention incompetent boonies drivers. I don’t even take a map….

]]> By: minTphresh http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266526 minTphresh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266526 im witcha battlehobo! i can't believe noone has even mentioned thor hyerdahl! anti viking indeed! kon tiki! im witcha battlehobo! i can’t believe noone has even mentioned thor hyerdahl! anti viking indeed! kon tiki!

]]> By: mgfarrelly http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266535 mgfarrelly Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266535 I think it's a great idea and they should definitely build on it. I don't get the snarkiness though. I was missing Ibn Battuta (his opinions of the filthy Europeans make for great reading) but I'm not going to fault a really cool project for not being utterly complete. I think it’s a great idea and they should definitely build on it.

I don’t get the snarkiness though. I was missing Ibn Battuta (his opinions of the filthy Europeans make for great reading) but I’m not going to fault a really cool project for not being utterly complete.

]]> By: eustace http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266812 eustace Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266812 Until I hear that Tintin's adventures have been mapped there, I won't bother looking. Until I hear that Tintin’s adventures have been mapped there, I won’t bother looking.

]]> By: Pyre http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266825 Pyre Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266825 Oh, David, Albert Hoffman took the same old route daily. What was different about the bicycle ride he took <i>that</i> day wouldn't show up on any map. Oh, David, Albert Hoffman took the same old route daily. What was different about the bicycle ride he took that day wouldn’t show up on any map.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266577 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266577 At last we can find Amelia Earhart! If only it included Jimmy Hoffa we could follow the map to him as well! At last we can find Amelia Earhart! If only it included Jimmy Hoffa we could follow the map to him as well!

]]> By: tjcrandley http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-269662 tjcrandley Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-269662 Where the hell is Matt(wherethehellismatt.com)? That is missing. Where the hell is Matt(wherethehellismatt.com)? That is missing.

]]> By: novakreo http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266604 novakreo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266604 Not a single journey across the Australian continent? The ill-fated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition" rel="nofollow">Burke and Wills</a> expedition would be a good start. Not a single journey across the Australian continent?
The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition would be a good start.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266614 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266614 I should probably register an account first, but the omission of the voyages of the Chinese eunuch admiral Zheng He is pretty glaring to me. Others probably worthy of inclusion include Tschiffely's journey from Buenos Aires to D.C. on horseback,and Hugo Eckener's trip around the globe aboard the Graf Zeppelin. It's a good map, but I think real voyages deserve precedence over fictional ones. I should probably register an account first, but the omission of the voyages of the Chinese eunuch admiral Zheng He is pretty glaring to me. Others probably worthy of inclusion include Tschiffely’s journey from Buenos Aires to D.C. on horseback,and Hugo Eckener’s trip around the globe aboard the Graf Zeppelin. It’s a good map, but I think real voyages deserve precedence over fictional ones.

]]> By: stevew http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266359 stevew Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266359 This woman must be on any such list, Makiko Sugino from Japan. 250,000 miles solo, 5 years, every continent. See http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228592 Scroll down for a small map. This woman must be on any such list, Makiko Sugino from Japan.

250,000 miles solo, 5 years, every continent.

See http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228592 Scroll down for a small map.

]]> By: Bobdotcom http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266635 Bobdotcom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266635 They also left off the amazing adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her intrepid spaniel Stig amongst the giant pygmies of Corsica. They also left off the amazing adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her intrepid spaniel Stig amongst the giant pygmies of Corsica.

]]> By: randomcat http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266380 randomcat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266380 Antarctica? The moon? Sigh. Antarctica? The moon? Sigh.

]]> By: antfarmer http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266382 antfarmer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266382 How odd that this graphic notes wimpy little jaunts like that of deSoto or Pizarro but ignores\ major undertakings like those of Nikolai Przhevalsky, who explored China, the Tien Shan mountains, much of Central Asia and Turkestan, during 5 expeditions. This is a pretty major omission. How odd that this graphic notes wimpy little jaunts like that of deSoto or Pizarro but ignores\ major undertakings like those of Nikolai Przhevalsky, who explored China, the Tien Shan mountains, much of Central Asia and Turkestan, during 5 expeditions. This is a pretty major omission.

]]> By: Roger Strong http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266399 Roger Strong Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266399 It's also strange that they note Lewis & Clark's journey - when they don't show Alexander Mackenzie's transcontinental journeys to the Pacific and Arctic oceans more than a decade earlier. It’s also strange that they note Lewis & Clark’s journey – when they don’t show Alexander Mackenzie’s transcontinental journeys to the Pacific and Arctic oceans more than a decade earlier.

]]> By: Mindpowered http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266400 Mindpowered Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266400 What the hell is the Union Pacific Railroad? The CNR was far greater and far more of an adventure? Lewis and Clarke? Late comers, try Alexander Makenzie or David Thompson or Simon Fraser. Where is Ibn Battua the great Arab traveller? Herodotus? Pytheas the Greek? Hanno the Carthaginian? Zhang Quian who traveled from China to Syria in 130 BC? Erg... What the hell is the Union Pacific Railroad? The CNR was far greater and far more of an adventure?

Lewis and Clarke? Late comers, try Alexander Makenzie or David Thompson or Simon Fraser.

Where is Ibn Battua the great Arab traveller? Herodotus? Pytheas the Greek? Hanno the Carthaginian? Zhang Quian who traveled from China to Syria in 130 BC?

Erg…

]]> By: chrisbloom7 http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266401 chrisbloom7 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266401 Also sadly missing - Tania Aebi, the first American woman and youngest person to sail around the world solo. Also sadly missing – Tania Aebi, the first American woman and youngest person to sail around the world solo.

]]> By: chrisbloom7 http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266405 chrisbloom7 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266405 Not to mention Charles Darwin's trips and The Essex (the basis for the novel Moby Dick) Not to mention Charles Darwin’s trips and The Essex (the basis for the novel Moby Dick)

]]> By: Mindpowered http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266406 Mindpowered Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266406 I just clicked on that thread from @1's post. That woman takes the cake. I'm also reminded of Don Starkell who paddled a canoe from Winnipeg,Manitoba to the mouth of the Orinoco river and then up the Orinoco and down the Amazon to the mouth of the Amazon. Obviously these people didn't bother to spend more than 5 minutes looking through an old American history text. I just clicked on that thread from @1′s post. That woman takes the cake.

I’m also reminded of Don Starkell who paddled a canoe from Winnipeg,Manitoba to the mouth of the Orinoco river and then up the Orinoco and down the Amazon to the mouth of the Amazon.

Obviously these people didn’t bother to spend more than 5 minutes looking through an old American history text.

]]> By: oddible http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266663 oddible Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266663 Share your Trip! Would have been cool if they had done this as a Google Maps extension allowing people to submit new paths, pictures, prose. Lots of people posting here with additional material. The trips could be categorized / tagged: by era, by fiction/non-fiction, by some more arbitrary notion of type of trip from nationalistic world exploration to personal discovery. Of course it would then require a censor mechanism - public voting seems to work well - lots o good votes, leave it in, lots o bad votes, drop under visibility threshold. Share your Trip!

Would have been cool if they had done this as a Google Maps extension allowing people to submit new paths, pictures, prose. Lots of people posting here with additional material. The trips could be categorized / tagged: by era, by fiction/non-fiction, by some more arbitrary notion of type of trip from nationalistic world exploration to personal discovery.

Of course it would then require a censor mechanism – public voting seems to work well – lots o good votes, leave it in, lots o bad votes, drop under visibility threshold.

]]> By: Deacon http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266416 Deacon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266416 Kingsley Holgate would probably not be known to people in the rest of the world but here in Southern Africa he is a legend having undertaken many epic and most times humanitarian journeys throughout Africa and beyond - including the 'Capricorn Adventure' where he and his wife and son circumnatigated the world following the Tropic of Capricorn. Heck he even looks the part with bushy white hair and an equally bushy white beard! See: http://www.kingsleyholgate.co.za/ for more on the man. Kingsley Holgate would probably not be known to people in the rest of the world but here in Southern Africa he is a legend having undertaken many epic and most times humanitarian journeys throughout Africa and beyond – including the ‘Capricorn Adventure’ where he and his wife and son circumnatigated the world following the Tropic of Capricorn. Heck he even looks the part with bushy white hair and an equally bushy white beard!

See: http://www.kingsleyholgate.co.za/ for more on the man.

]]> By: pduggie http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266437 pduggie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266437 How about the Apostle Paul? How about the Apostle Paul?

]]> By: Mindpowered http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266439 Mindpowered Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266439 Ok. Here is Ibn Battuta http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/ibn_battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html David Thompson and Simon Fraser http://www.arcturusconsulting.net/shop.htm Alexander MacKenzie (and a fabulous site on the exploration of North America http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1702-e.html Pytheas & Herodotus http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00362/explorers.htm Hanno of Carthage http://www.livius.org/ha-hd/hanno/hanno03.html And here is the CPR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway All found within 20 minutes. Ok.

Here is Ibn Battuta

http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/ibn_battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html

David Thompson and Simon Fraser

http://www.arcturusconsulting.net/shop.htm

Alexander MacKenzie (and a fabulous site on the exploration of North America

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1702-e.html

Pytheas & Herodotus

http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00362/explorers.htm

Hanno of Carthage

http://www.livius.org/ha-hd/hanno/hanno03.html

And here is the CPR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway

All found within 20 minutes.

]]> By: Orcateers http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266448 Orcateers Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266448 Around the World in 80 days... ...Yawn. That is a story about British men being on time places, ...and paying people to drive boats faster ...and a servant who loves his boss ...and colonial-era-style racism,sexism, etc. It represents nothing good about adventure as a genre Around the World in 80 days…
…Yawn.
That is a story about British men being on time places,
…and paying people to drive boats faster
…and a servant who loves his boss
…and colonial-era-style racism,sexism, etc.

It represents nothing good about adventure as a genre

]]> By: NuclearMoose http://boingboing.net/2008/08/22/interactive-map-of-h.html#comment-266450 NuclearMoose Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-266450 What about Canadian paraplegic Rick Hansen who pushed himself in his wheelchair over 40 000kms around the world? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen" rel="nofollow">Rick's Wikipedia page</a> What about Canadian paraplegic Rick Hansen who pushed himself in his wheelchair over 40 000kms around the world?

Rick’s Wikipedia page

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