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