In the history of exploration, Édouard-Alfred Martel is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Édouard-Alfred Martel as French cave explorer (1859–1938).
Édouard-Alfred Martel was born at Pontoise in 1859. His recorded nationality is France.
Nineteenth-century exploration turned inland - Africa, Asia and Australia - and was entangled from the start with empire, missions and the geographical societies that funded it.
He is recorded as speleologist, lawyer and geologist.
His recorded expeditions and events include marriage.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Recognition followed: Commander of the Legion of Honour, Concours général, Club Cévenol's Medal and Médaille d'honneur des épidémies.
Édouard-Alfred Martel died in 1938, aged 79. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Expeditions: marriage
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Concours général
- Club Cévenol's Medal
- Médaille d'honneur des épidémies
- Recorded as speleologist, lawyer and geologist
