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Born 1691 • Scotland
Died July 1, 1780 (aged 89) • Scotland
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French writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
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Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
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William Lithgow
Scottish explorer
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Gavin Maxwell
British author
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Jean Tharaud
French writer
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Martin E. Johnson
American adventurer and photographer
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Ilya Ilf
Soviet humorist
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Yevgeny Petrov
Soviet humorist
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
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Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Italian explorer
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Stendhal
French author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background.
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer