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John Buchan
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The greatest mens novelist
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Frederick Selous
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Inspiration for Allan Quartermain
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W.D.M. Bell
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Small bore precision elephant hunter
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Lord Frederick Hamilton
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Ambassador and nobleman from an enormous Irish family
First autobiography:
Peter Fleming
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The better Fleming
Owen Lattimore
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Brother to the Iliad translator Richmond, international affairs expert
Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Polyglot, walked from Holland to Constantinople, staged one of the greatest abductions ever
Ewart Grogan
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Walked from Cape Town to Cairo because his future father-in-law was unimpressed with his accomplishments
Adrian Carton de Wiart
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"The un-killable soldier"
Douglas Mawson
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Greatest individual Antarctic survival story
Autobiography:
Ernest Shackleton
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Obviously
T.E. Lawrence
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Probably actually autistic
Robert Service
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"Bard of the Yukon", Parisian bohemian, infiltrated Russia during retirement, appeared in a John Wayne movie as himself
First autobiography:
Dr. David Livingstone
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"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"