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    Pliny The Younger’s Journey To Asia Minor
    When Pliny the Younger set out from Rome to what’s now Turkey in the baking-hot summer of AD 111, he must have experienced at least a hint of trepidation. One trait rarely attributed to this Roman author is bravery. Today, he is best known for what h
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    Samuel De Champlain: Explorer, Diplomat, Cartographer, Coloniser
    Samuel de Champlain (c1574–1635) was born in Brouage, a small port on the west coast of France; little is known of his childhood. He learned navigation from his father and his aunt’s husband (both mariners), and from around 1595 served with the army
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    Pliny The Younger: Writer, Lawyer, Reluctant Traveller
    Born in lakeside Como in northern Italy, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 61 or 62 – c113) was probably tutored at home before being taken under the wing of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This would be the defining relationship of the younger man’s life. The

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