There's something incredible about the age in which we live. We cross continents in hours, store roomfuls of information on a tiny chip, send messages to the other end of the globe in under a millisecond. We've cured diseases; conquered the poles; surmounted the peaks; we're merely a decade away from putting a human being on Mars and we've explored every inch of our planet.

It's safe to say the Age of Exploration is behind us; you can no longer just wake up one morning, pull out your bicycle and return home discovering something that doesn't already exist somewhere on the Internet. Which is probably what makes the story of seven men who cycled around the world some hundred years ago in equal parts romantic and unbelievable. And their journeys, largely forgotten, are the answer to the modern-day dilemma - if it isn't on Instagram, did it even happen?