By Their Own Compass
By Where a love of history meets a passion for travel.
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Historian Jeremiah Jenne and journalist Sarah Keenlyside explore historical travellers and the worlds they encountered, connecting past journeys to today's travel destinations.
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Escape to Afghanistan: Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and the promise that couldn't be kept
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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History's Greatest Travel Scams: From Medieval Relic Fraud to the Tea House Scam in Beijing
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Olaudah Equiano: The Enslaved Man Who Rewrote History
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Nellie Bly's Record-Breaking Race Around the World
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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North Korea's Improbable, Giant-Killing World Cup Run: Mythical Horses, Scary Crucifixes and a Chef's Revenge
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Route 66: Cowboys, Cadillacs and Nat King Cole
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Zheng He: The Eunuch Who Commanded the World’s Biggest Treasure Fleet
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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The Dark Side of the Compass: When Travellers Become the Problem
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May 28, 2026 |
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Emily Hahn in China: War, Romance, and Opium
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May 14, 2026 |
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History’s Funniest Diplomatic Fails: the US in Guam, Louis XIV’s Fake Persian Ambassador and China’s Unluckiest Envoy
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Leo Africanus: Pirates, Popes, and the Moor Who Knew Too Much
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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The Lost Generation in 1920s Paris: How Glamorous Was It Really?
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Historian Nicola Di Cosmo on Venice, the Mongols, and Marco Polo in China
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Marco Polo’s 17 Year Journey in China: Reality vs Fiction
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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History's Biggest Travel Divas: Fanny Trollope, Empress Dowager Cixi, and Alice Roosevelt
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Interview: Annie Londonderry’s Great-Grandnephew Peter Zheutlin
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Annie Londonderry: The Woman Who Bicycled Around the World (Sort Of)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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History's Greatest Travel Scams: From Medieval Relic Fraud to the Tea House Scam in Beijing
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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What Happens When You Recreate a Viking Voyage, with W. Hodding Carter
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Erik the Red & Leif Erikson: The outlaw who founded Greenland and the son who reached North America
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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The Grand Tour Explained: Bridgerton, Bad Behaviour and Too Many Sex Scandals to Count
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Bonus Dispatch: Modern-day Missionaries, Walking Safaris, and the Livingstone Trail with Dan Kobayashi
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Dr. David Livingstone's Thirty-year Journey in Africa
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Bonus Episode: Sacagawea Does K-Pop, Lewis and Clark, and AI in Podcasting
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Sacagawea
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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When Travel Goes Catastrophically Wrong: History's Greatest Fiascos
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: Emily Hahn’s Shanghai
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Emily Hahn
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Ibn Battuta
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Oct 15, 2025 |