I have an agent looking into chartering a cruise with The History Guy. This would be a relatively intimate ship- perhaps 100-200 passengers. The plan would be either the East Cost or the Mississippi, and would focus on historical sites along the way. I would do historical presentations as well as mingle personally. Tentatively we would schedule summer or fall of 2024.
At this point I am just gauging interest to see if it is an idea worth pursuing. If you might at all be interested, please respond here and we can start to work on details.
-Lance
In 1906, a famed explorer saw something on the horizon that would lead an expedition of men to search for a magnificent land they hoped would be full of new and undiscovered treasures for science.
One famous dolphin lived near the shores of New Zealand in the late 1800s, and swam alongside hundreds of ships, becoming a beloved figure to locals and foreigners alike, and described as ”the best known fish in the world.”
It was relatively common in the middle ages for Kings, royals, and various other titled men to die in combat, and they were at least usually expected to fight personally. Despite the dangers of medieval combat and the expectations of nobility, however, many at the highest levels of aristocracy died in less than noble mundane accidents, and even in embarrassing circumstances.
In April of 1894, a young man from Pittsburgh left Tabriz, Persia, aboard a bicycle, bound for the turbulent land of the Ottoman Empire. His story had seen coverage in newspapers around the world - attention would only magnify when he mysteriously disappeared in the remote terrain of Turkish Armenia.