1973 Brooke Bond : Adventurers & Explorers Picture Cards
History of Adventurers and Explorers Picture Cards were published in
1973 by Brooke Bond Oxo Ltd. of Surrey. The 50-card series was distributed for
free with purchases of Brooke Bond Tea. Each card measures approximately 69 x
37 mm. The Adventurers and Explorers album was available for five pence
from grocers or mail order.
The collection was illustrated by John Beswick. The card and album text was
authored by Tim Severin. The album was printed in England by The Berkshire
Printing Co. Ltd. The series was made in co-operation with the British
Airports Authority and the Royal Geographic Society.
The series features cards for Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. Gagarin is depicted aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft on April 12, 1961. The "Neil Armstrong" card illustration is based on a photograph of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin during the Apollo 11 EVA. The reflection of Armstrong can be seen in the center of the helmet visor.
The series features cards for Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. Gagarin is depicted aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft on April 12, 1961. The "Neil Armstrong" card illustration is based on a photograph of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin during the Apollo 11 EVA. The reflection of Armstrong can be seen in the center of the helmet visor.
| Checklist | |
| 1 | John de Plano Carpini |
| 2 | Marco Polo |
| 3 | Leif Ericsson |
| 4 | Ibn Batuta |
| 5 | Francis Xavier |
| 6 | Christopher Columbus |
| 7 | Vasco da Gama |
| 8 | Ferdinand Magellan |
| 9 | Hernán Cortés |
| 10 | Francisco Pizarro |
| 11 | Francisco de Orellana |
| 12 | Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
| 13 | Sir Francis Drake |
| 14 | John Davis |
| 15 | Jacques Cartier |
| 16 | René Robert Cavelier |
| 17 | Abel Janszoon Tasman |
| 18 | William Dampier |
| 19 | James Cook |
| 20 | Mungo Park |
| 21 | René Caillié |
| 22 | Sir Alexander Mackenzie |
| 23 | Meriwether Lewis / William Clark |
| 24 | Sir Richard Burton |
| 25 | John Hanning Speke |
| 26 | David Livingstone |
| 27 | Sir Henry Morton Stanley |
| 28 | John McDouall Stuart |
| 29 | Alexander von Humboldt |
| 30 | Henry Walter Bates |
| 31 | Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld |
| 32 | Fridtjof Nansen |
| 33 | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 34 | Roald Amundsen |
| 35 | Robert Falcon Scott |
| 36 | Ernest Henry Shackleton |
| 37 | Sir John William Alcock / Sir Arthur Whitten Brown |
| 38 | Charles Lindbergh |
| 39 | Amy Johnson |
| 40 | Thor Heyerdahl |
| 41 | Alain Bombard |
| 42 | Sir Edmund Percival Hillary / Norgay Tenzing |
| 43 | Joshua Slocum |
| 44 | Sir Francis Chichester |
| 45 | Wilfrid Patrick Thesiger |
| 46 | Walter William Herbert |
| 47 | Auguste Piccard |
| 48 | Jacques Cousteau |
| 49 | Yuri Gagarin |
| 50 | Neil Alden Armstrong |
