Explorers - Bernard Delemotte, Carl Von Hoffman, Commonwealth Expedition, Desert Exploration, Fastron-Metro TV Europe Asia Expedit (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Bernard Delemotte, Carl von Hoffman, Commonwealth Expedition, Desert exploration, Fastron-Metro TV Europe Asia Expedition, George C. Sibley, Giles Healey, Guillaume Le Testu, Himilco, John Dunn (explorer), Kira Salak, List of conquistadors, List of explorers, Louis-Philippe Loncke, Maes Titianus, Margaretha Heijkenskold, Richard Everett, Shane Lundgren, William Mynors. Excerpt: The following is a list of explorers. Australian Neverland BandeirantesConquistadorExplorationExploration of AsiaList of explorationsList of lost expeditionsList of maritime explorersList of Russian explorersMaritime timelineRadhanitesSilk RoadSpice tradeTrans-Saharan tradeTravel literature Karl von Hoffman (St. Petersburg, Russia, c. 1889 New York, New York, USA, 8 July 1982) was a soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer of German ancestry. He was a descendant of Melchior Hoffman; journalist Nicholas von Hoffman is his son. A picture from the Mexican Revolution of the explorer Carl von Hoffman and Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary. Von Hoffman was on assignment from D. W. Griffith to gather factual films of Pancho Villa for use in a film. For this, Villa was to be paid $25,000.At the age of 17, von Hoffman then a military cadet disobeyed his mother's wishes and joined the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. For actions during the war he was awarded the Order of St. Anna. He participated in World War I, serving in the Russian army, and then under Admiral Kolchak on the White Russian side in the Russian Civil War. Von Hoffman is said by some sources to have been on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition in 1913; however, Theodore Roosevelt does not mention him in his memoir of the expedition, so this must be dismissed. Von Hoffman was an explorer who once led a safari from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo a walk that took him three years and was the basis of his two books, Jungle Gods (New York, H. Holt and Company ) and Jerry on Safari: A 7,000 Mile Journey from Cairo to the Cape (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1936). Von Hoffman's photographs of the Mexican Revolution and of Theodore Roosevelt were celebrated. He was the cinematographer on films including The Life of General Villa, (1914, ), featuring Pancho Villa himself. The movie was produced by D. W. Griffith. Von Hoffman often said his knowledge of the use of machine guns wa