Adventurer, explorer, and environmental advocate Luc Hardy's travels often have taken him to some of the most remote places on earth -- including the North and South Poles. But his latest journey took ...

IN THE 1890’s, when Siberia meant to most people only a place to which Tsarist Russia sent its political exiles, some of these more enterprising exiles lightened their boredom there by going native.

Squatting at the base of an enormous banyan tree, an elderly village chief holds his most prized possession between bony fingers. 'Philip sent this to us,' he said. 'Now we have three of them.' A ...

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