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Here are the seven intrepid wannabe explorers currently hanging out online:
Florence Plover left her home in Bristol at the age of 14, stowed away in the hold of a merchant ship. After disembarking in India, she spent the rest of her life living in a series of treehouses in the jungle, learning the languages of the forest creatures, especially the elephants.
Harold Harkins spent the first half of his life living comfortably in London. The son of a barrister, he was set to step into the stern shoes of his successful father when a chance meeting with a magpie in Greenwich Park turned him to a life of poverty and ornithological study.
Samuel Redfarm prized only his perfectly groomed hair and his collection of rare Patagonian butterflies, which covered the walls of his London home
Pearl Palterson, daughter of one of the richest men in Victorian London, grew up with a love for the natural world. Restricted by her status from gallivanting across the world in the name of Science, she instead began to fund the travels of other naturalists. Because of her generous patronage, the number of scientific discoveries made by women skyrocketed.
Lawrence Woodbottom fell into the life of amateur naturalism quite by accident, having wanted only to identify a strange bird's call that had been waking him up at ungodly hours each morning. During his search for the bird's proper name, he became engrossed by the library's collection of ornithological texts and spent the rest of his life documenting the many birds of England.
Beatrice Goodside began considering herself to be an eccentric at the tender age of 8, prompted by the realization that not all schoolgirls obsessively collected, preserved and displayed insects. Her parents, both hobby naturalists themselves, encouraged her entomological leanings through the often painful derision of her classmates, and Beatrice grew to become one of the only female entomologists acknowledged as a scientific and exploratory equal by her male colleagues.
August Fawndale saw his first whale at the age of three, while on vacation with his parents in France. From that moment on, he became obsessed with the mysterious creatures, and, at the age of 15, designed a small, steam-powered submersible that he hoped would allow him unprecedented access to the world of his beloved cetaceans.
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