40 “I thought I had”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951.
41 “A particularly beautiful”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, letter to the editor, Occult Review, Feb. 1913, p. 80.
41 “lone wolf”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 16.
41 Madame Blavatsky: See Meade, Madame Blavatsky; Washington, Madame Blavatsky's Baboon; and Oppenheim, Other World.
41 “a genius”: Meade, Madame Blavatsky, p. 40.
42 “She weighed more”: Ibid., p. 8.
42 “the most human”: Kelly, Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, p. 164.
42 “addicted to table-rapping”: Oppenheim, Other World, p. 28.
42 “I suppose I am”: Stashower, Teller of Tales, p. 405.
43 “For those who”: Oppenheim, Other World, p. 184.
43 “The ceremony commenced”: Dublin Review, July- Oct. 1890, p. 56.
44 “At the very time”: A. N. Wilson, Victorians, p. 551.
44 “I transgressed again”: Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 116.
44 In the late 1860s: See Stanley, How I Found Livingstone; and Jeal, Livingstone.
45 “E. M. Forster once”: Pritchett, Tale Bearers, p. 25.
45 “ wild-man that eats”: Edward Douglas Fawcett, Swallowed by an Earthquake, p. 180.
45 “most venturesome”: Edward Douglas Fawcett, Secret of the Desert, p. 206.
46 “possibly thinking”: Ibid., p. 3.
46 “strange ruins”: Ibid., p. 49.
46 “we would-be”: Ibid., p. 146.
46 “I was overcome”: Ibid., p. 195.
46 “He won't”: Ibid., p. 237.
46 “Everywhere about me”: Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 116.
47 “the city has vanished”: Walters, Palms and Pearls, p. 94.
47 “old Ceylon is”: Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 23, 1924, PHFP.
47 “a geography militant”: Conrad, “Geography and Some Explorers,” p. 6.
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49 One person who: Steve Kemper's 1995 account, “Fawcett's Wake,” provided to author.
49 For ages, cartographers: Information on the history of maps and geography is drawn largely from Wilford, Mapmakers; Brown, Story of Maps; Sobel, Longitude; Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World; and De Camp and Ley, Lands Beyond.
50 “with every kind”: Quoted in Brehaut, Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages, p. 244.
50 “I, Prester John”: Quoted in Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World, p. 77.
50 “to the dearest son”: Quoted in De Camp and Ley, Lands Beyond, p. 148.
51 “the Discovery of”: Wilford, Mapmakers, p. 153.
51 Finally, in the nineteenth: For information on the history of the RGS, see Mill, Record of the Royal Geographical Society; Cameron, To the Farthest Ends of the Earth; and Keltie, “Thirty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society.”
52 “collect, digest”: Mill, Record of the Royal Geographical Society, p. 17.
52 “There was not”: Francis Younghusband, in “The Centenary Meeting: Addresses on the History of the Society,” Geographical Journal, Dec. 1930, p. 467.
52 “[It] was composed”: Keltie, “Thirty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society,” p. 350.
53 Richard Burton espoused: For information on Burton, see Kennedy, Highly Civilized Man; Farwell, Burton; and Lovell, Rage to Live.
53 “I protest vehemently”: Quoted in Farwell, Burton, p. 267. 53 “looked as if a tiger”: Quoted in Lovell, Rage to Live, p. 581.
53 “Explorers are not”: David Attenborough, foreword to Cameron, To the Farthest Ends of the Earth.
53 “What you can”: Quoted in Kennedy, Highly Civilized Man, p. 102.
54 “who sit in carpet slippers”: Ibid., p. 103. 54 “B is one of those men”: Ibid., p. 169. 54 “gladiatorial exhibition”: Ibid., p. 124.
54 “By God, he's killed”: Quoted in Moorehead, White Nile, pp. 74-75.
54 A cousin of Charles Darwin's: See Gillham, Life of Sir Francis Galton; Pickover, Strange Brains and Genius; and Brookes, Extreme Measures.
55 “no man expressed”: Quoted in Pickover, Strange Brains and Genius, p. 113.
55 “A passion for travel”: Ibid., p. 118.
55 “from north and south”: Quoted in Driver, Geography Militant, p. 3.
56 “So great is the heat”: Quoted in Cameron, To the Farthest Ends of the Earth, p. 53.
57 “There is very little”: Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 14, 1921, RGS.
58 It was February 4, 1900: The date was identified in a 1901 letter from the War Of fice to the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, while the location of the hotel was mentioned in Reeves's Recollections of a Geographer, p. 96.
58 Billboard men: For descriptions of London at the turn of the century, see Cook, Highways and Byways in London; Burke, Streets of London Through the Centuries; Sims, Living London; Flanders, Inside the Victorian Home; and Larson, Thunderstruck.
59 On the corner: For details about the RGS building on Savile Row, see Mill, Record of the Royal Geographical Society.
59 In his late thirties: My descriptions of Reeves and his course are drawn largely from his memoir, Recollections of a Geographer, and his published lectures, Maps and Map-Making.
60 “How well I”: Reeves, Recollections of a Geographer, p. 17.
60 “He had an innate”: Francis Younghusband, foreword to ibid., p. 11.
60 “the society of men”: Galton, Art of Travel, p. 2.
60 “If you could blindfold”: Reeves, Maps and Map-Making, p. 84.
61 “He was extremely”: Reeves, Recollections of a Geographer, p. 96.
61 what the Greeks called: Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World, p. 84.
61 There were two principaclass="underline" For further information about the role that these manu als played in shaping Victorian attitudes, see Driver, Geography Militant, pp. 49-67.