The two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano.

“A woman whose life’s poetry never sank to prose.”

A resolute seeker of forbidden knowledge.

She married adventure, but made it her own.

“I am the sun, the star, the earl, the lion, the light from heaven and the Queen.”

The aviatrix who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.

A tattooed, cigar-chomping, cross-dressing, knife-collecting speed demon.

He set a record that will not be broken until man finds water amongst the stars.

The whore to Annie Oakley’s virgin in American myth.

The clochard who chronicled freedom from the straight world.

His irrepressible optimism and perseverance outlasted his era.

His silence helps to preserve the moon’s mystique.

The heiress-turned-aviatrix who conquered earth, sea, & air.

He’s still there because it’s there.

THOR HEYERDAHL (1914–2002) lived a long life, but so much was left…

In more than 120 television specials JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU (1910–97) portrayed a floating…