The London home of the early 20th-century polar explorer Ernest Shackleton hit the market earlier this month for £6.5 million (US$8.2 million).

Americans love a good scammer. Frederick Cook, polar explorer and would-be oil tycoon, is the perfect fit for our age — 83 years after his death.

A verdant Tudor-revival estate, where the ill-fated English adventurer Dr. Edward Wilson honed his skills as a naturalist, is selling in the Cotswolds for £985,000 (US$1.2 million). Built in the ...