Not exact matches
The
early explorers charting the Polar Regions were
among the first to notice how extreme cold made their journey akin to dragging their sleds across sand rather than gliding over ice.
Among early photographers there were storytellers, technicians,
explorers, and there were alchemists drawn to the unknowns that chemistry promised.
The wettest conditions may have occurred relatively recently, between 230 and 100 BP (A.D. 1720 and 1850), so that
early European
explorers may have seen and / or heard reports of conditions
among the wettest during the later Holocene in southern Africa.