All Episodes

Zheng He: The Eunuch Who Commanded the World’s Biggest Treasure Fleet

The Dark Side of the Compass: When Travellers Become the Problem

Emily Hahn in China: War, Romance, and Opium

History’s Funniest Diplomatic Fails: the US in Guam, Louis XIV’s Fake Persian Ambassador and China’s Unluckiest Envoy

Leo Africanus: Pirates, Popes, and the Moor Who Knew Too Much

The Lost Generation in 1920s Paris: How Glamorous Was It Really?

Historian Nicola Di Cosmo on Venice, the Mongols, and Marco Polo in China

Marco Polo’s 17 Year Journey in China: Reality vs Fiction

History's Biggest Travel Divas: Fanny Trollope, Empress Dowager Cixi, and Alice Roosevelt

Interview: Annie Londonderry’s Great-Grandnephew Peter Zheutlin

Annie Londonderry: The Woman Who Bicycled Around the World (Sort Of)

History's Greatest Travel Scams: From Medieval Relic Fraud to the Tea House Scam in Beijing

What Happens When You Recreate a Viking Voyage, with W. Hodding Carter

Erik the Red & Leif Erikson: The outlaw who founded Greenland and the son who reached North America

The Grand Tour Explained: Bridgerton, Bad Behaviour and Too Many Sex Scandals to Count

Bonus Dispatch: Modern-day Missionaries, Walking Safaris, and the Livingstone Trail with Dan Kobayashi

Dr. David Livingstone's Thirty-year Journey in Africa

Bonus Episode: Sacagawea Does K-Pop, Lewis and Clark, and AI in Podcasting

Sacagawea

When Travel Goes Catastrophically Wrong: History's Greatest Fiascos

Bonus Episode: Emily Hahn’s Shanghai

Emily Hahn

Ibn Battuta