Tells the stories of the men and women who have ventured forth to discover remote lands and to increase human knowledge of the world and the universe.
General Note
Col. map on endpapers.
Content Note
Content includes: Edmund Hillary -- Cornelis de Houtman -- Hsuan-tsang -- Hubble Space Telescope -- Henry Hudson -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Wilson Price Hunt and Robert Stuart -- Willem Janszoon -- Amy Johnson -- Louis Jolliet -- Mary Kingsley -- Johann Ludwig Krapf -- Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de La Perouse -- Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle -- Michael J. Leahy -- Leif Eriksson -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- Charles Lindbergh -- David Livingstone -- Luna -- Alexander Mackenzie -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Thomas Manning -- Jean-Baptiste Marchand -- Mariner -- Beryl Markham -- Abu al-Hasan 'Ali al-Mas'udi -- Robert McClure -- Fridtjof Nansen -- U.S.S. Nautilus -- Vasco Nunez de Balboa -- Peter Skene Ogden -- Alonso de Ojeda -- Francisco de Orellana -- Mungo Park -- Edward Parry -- Robert Edwin Peary -- Annie Smith Peck -- Auguste Piccard and Jacques Piccard -- Zebulon Pike -- Fernao Mendes Pinto -- and Francisco Pizarro.