St.Patrick educated and adventurous, changed his world.
Saint Patrick
After six years of slavery he escaped to Gaul (France), became a Christian and went back to Ireland to convert them to Christianity.
Adventurers: Explorers, Pirates, Map Makers
This part of our website includes allsorts of interesting people from Welsh Pirates like Black Bart to explorers and cartographers (map makers) to magnificent hero's like Harold Lowe. True one would expect nearly all of these people to be historical personalities but there are adventures with a Welsh connection alive and well and doing their best to open frontiers today, even in space with NASA astronaut Joe Tanner.
Howel Davis, adventurer linked to Milford Haven, West Wales
Howel Davis
Davis proved himself an enterprising and successful pirate chief, but preferred, whenever possible, to use strategy and cunning rather than force to gain his ends.
John Evans, adventurer linked to Gwynedd, Wales
John Evans
Led the first expeditions along the upper Missouri River in the late eighteenth century. Before Lewis and Clark crossed the continent for the first time in 1806, Evans had progressed furthest into Continental America (as far present-day North Dakota).
Sir Charles Evans, Everest expedition commander and Bangor, Wales
Sir Charles Evans
Second in command of the Everest expedition of 1953. Was in fact the first choice for accent to the summit but was defeated by bad weather. Had he done so, he would have achieved all the fame that Edmund Hillary received. In 1955 he led the Khan Chen Junga expedition.
David Williams, pirate adventurer with a Welsh connection!
David Williams
Notorious pirate who terrorised the seas off Madagascar.
David Thompson, adventurer with a Welsh connection!
David Thompson
The man who measured Canada! This prodigious explorer surveyed most of the Canadian - US border during the early days of the country. Covering 80,000 miles on foot, dog sled, horseback and canoe some two hundred years ago. He defined one-fifth of the North American continent.
Daniel Boone, adventurer with links to Tredegar, Wales
Daniel Boone
American frontiersman of note.