It's a pleasure to welcome Matthew Lockwood, professor of history at the University of Alabama. His new book Explorers takes a look at topics we know well from the fourth and fifth grade (who discovered the Pacific Ocean, and what about Columbus?) and turns it around so that we see exploring on the point of view of where you come from, and not who you are.
We begin, however, with the classics world because it tells a story that was never believed, or only believed in pieces as legend.
Matthew begins in the 5th century, BCE.
What do we learn from looking at explorers who were believed and not believed? What were they looking for? What were their motives to take the risks they did?
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