Indeed some people might hesitate to identify the young Churchill as representing the best of British values when he was a colonial adventurer of the worst sort.
Gabriele D'Annunzio, a priapic, drug-addicted poet, war hero, military adventurer and man about town, was a mesmeric figure who encouraged triumphalism in Italy's nationalist right-wingers.
After a third winter Poyarkov returned to Yakutsk with fewer than a quarter of his 160 men.In 1649 another Cossack adventurer, Yerofei Khabarov, came to the Amur.
He and Ernesto Chee" Guevara, the Argentine adventurer who died in Bolivia in 1967, were the orthodox Marxists among the leaders of Fidel's Rebel Army, the ragtag band of bearded guerrillas who toppled the corrupt, American-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
That ship, the Fame, caught fire and sank with all their belongings, and they were lucky to escape with their lives.By then Raffles was known as a scholar as well as an adventurer.
LARA CROFT, adventurer and archaeologist, flees through an underground cavern from a pack of pursuing dogs, only to find her way blocked by a chasm.
IN 1886 THOMAS STEVENS, a British adventurer (pictured), set off on an unusual bicycle trip.
Mr Museveni's critics accuse him at best of overreaching himself, at worst of being a military adventurer, bent on establishing an empire of ethnic Tutsis in the Great Lakes region.
Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.
At least that is what Sir Walter Raleigh, a 16th-century British adventurer, once believed.
Eventually she accepted the invitation of her adventurer brother in Tennessee and moved to America.
