victorian
How the Victorian Fern-Hunting Craze Led To Adventure, Romance, and Crime
"Pteridomania"—an obsession with ferns—gripped the era's amateur botanists.
Articles by Dimitra Nikolaidou
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Why the Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom
How a search for the hidden land of Shambhala turned into a geopolitical power play.
