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By Their Own Compass
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Historian Jeremiah Jenne and journalist Sarah Keenlyside bring you stories of historical travelers, the places they went, and the people they encountered.

(After all, one person's frontier is another person's front door.)
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Compass Dispatch: Holiday Travel and our Year in Review
The first year of By Their Own Compass was amazing and we're already looking forward to sharing more travelers' tales with you in 2026
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December 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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When Travel Goes Catastrophically Wrong: History's Greatest Fiascos
Pour yourself something strong (we suggest scotch) and settle in for a festive tour through history's most spectacular travel disasters.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Bonus Episode: Emily Hahn’s Shanghai
A travel companion for finding the ‘Mickey Hahn’ era today with Historic Shanghai.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Ibn Battuta
Taking the long way from Turkey to India
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October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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From Hannibal's elephants to Viking logs worth more than stone houses, sometimes the best historical records weren't written with ink.

Read more in this edition of our Compass Dispatches Newsletter, a digest about historical travel and historical travelers.

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