was fascinated by the beauty & lore of the Superstition Mountains, where he made many expeditions to the backcountry prospecting for gold. The grizzled prospector heading into the mountains with his trusty burro was a beloved symbol of hope& independence for DeGrazia.

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Until the end of the 19th century, scientists believed life couldn't exist below 300 fathoms. Then one pioneering expedition found strange and wondrous creatures in the deep. Here they are illustrated, the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods https://t.co/TDXn0DSzIO

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Until the end of the 19th century, scientists believed life couldn't exist below 300 fathoms. Then one pioneering expedition found strange and wondrous creatures in the deep. Here they are illustrated, the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods https://t.co/QuPtIrwfSP

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On this day in 1519, Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico with 500 troops to crush the Aztec empire. After coming ashore, he supposedly orders his ships scuttled. Cortés believes that by eliminating the expedition's only means of escape, his men will fight harder.

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Talking about alien landscapes and fauna.... Wayne Barlowe and his book Expedition. A MUST have!

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Horizon Zero Dawn
Completed the Second Expedition (Bronze)
Successfully assaulted Thunder's Drum.

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I just love this image, I love everyone in the expedition society

FRIENDS!!!

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🔭 Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur /.
Erlangen: Expedition des Schreber'schen säugthier- und des Esper'schen Schmetterlingswerkes [etc., 1774]-1846.
https://t.co/GiKk9SZYyJ

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Someone pours cold water on Vector's plans in this week's X Marks! Read on at https://t.co/gzs7sjVG7V

New reader? Need a refresher? Check the links below!
🗺️Expedition 1: https://t.co/cXKFhI3pEN

🗺️Expedition 2: https://t.co/kJH4j4y29l

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Sunday !
Find a relaxing hobby, invite some friends to a fishing expedition
High heels and fishnet outfits strongly recommended
Art by Izaskun

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Friday !
Find a relaxing hobby for the weekend, invite some friends for a fishing expedition, make sure you take the proper licenses...
Please note that adventure has rewards and risks
Kinky pulp art by one of the masters of the genre, Rafael Gallur

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The Smithsonian has just released 2.8 million images into the public domain, and it includes one of my all-time favorites: Frederic Church’s stunning 1865 painting of the Aurora Borealis and the Arctic expedition of Isaac Israel Hayes. Gorgeous!

https://t.co/mJwMtSB2ZZ

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🔭 Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur /.
Erlangen: Expedition des Schreber'schen säugthier- und des Esper'schen Schmetterlingswerkes [etc., 1774]-1846.
https://t.co/L8UcBXoeHW

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breaking news!!!!! hamster husband broke free from disastrous trap during sunflower seed expedition - proudly returns safely to his hamster wife!!!!

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🐼 Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur /.
Erlangen: Expedition des Schreber'schen säugthier- und des Esper'schen Schmetterlingswerkes [etc., 1774]-1846.
https://t.co/yauccnT7xV

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Down is a 24-part about an expedition into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench

https://t.co/50QYRcacb9

Art by Eric Chow > https://t.co/wqzByeDydX

Music by Jonathan Day > https://t.co/OVqrqaK1yU

Follow for news/really bad jokes

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CHUCHUNYA: One-shot horror. Art by Roel Torres, cover by . A Soviet scientific expedition to the frozen forests of Siberia encounter a creature that is terrifying beyond all imagination.

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+500 watercolors of marine and freshwater fishes drawn by Jacques Burkhardt during the Thayer Expedition lead by L. Agassiz in 1865-1866. Book published by Britski & Figueiredo 2019.

"Peixes do Brasil: Aquarela de Jacques Burkhardt 1865-1866"
https://t.co/IdnJSV1IoM

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❦Stories are realms of adventure for the mind, expeditions of empathy for the heart, and infinite possibilities for the imagination. ~Anne Scottlin

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A pair of rather eerily beautiful plates - the lithograph with an appropriately chilly greenish tint - from Elisha Kent Kane's 1853 account of the first Grinnell Arctic Expedition in search of John Franklin, for which Kane was senior medical officer https://t.co/SSgX0mpnD5

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