The Secret Agent[?] by Joseph Conrad is published. In 2001, the book would be one of four books by Conrad to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
... the Northwest Passage in a single ship
Roy Chapman Andrews, (1884-1960), US explorer
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa, (c. 1475-1519), (- Spanish, first to sight the Pacifi ...