Post World War I America was captivated by the daring of men like Charles Lindbergh and Richard Peary.

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Peary, and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, a real-life Indiana Jones who roamed the Gobi Desert hunting for dinosaur fossils.

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Somehow, I don't think at, say, down at the Explorer's Club, they debate regularly about who's the better explorer: Vasco da Gama or Robert Peary?

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