At the age of eighteen Fawcett graduated from Britain's Royal Military Academy, where he learned to be “a natural leader of men fearless.”
Sandhurst Collection, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst


   

Nina, whom Fawcett met in Ceylon and married in 1901, once compared her situation to that of a sailor's wife: “very uncertain and lonely” and “miserably poor.”
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E. A. Reeves, the Royal Geographical Society's map curator, was charged with turning Fawcett into a gentleman explorer. Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society