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: Carl Johan Andersson, William Balfour Baikie, Daisy Bates, Saint Brendan, John Byron, Pedro Alvares Cabral, Eugenie Clark, Luigi Maria D'Albertis, Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev, Alice Eastwood, Linda Finch, Mel Fisher, Birute Galdikas, Ernest Giles, Hanno, Thor Heyerdahl, Abu Abd-Allah Muhammed al-Sharif al-Idrisi, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Wilhelm Junker, Elisha Kent Kane, Kintup, Jacob Le Marie, S.S. Manhattan, Dervla Murphy, National Air and Space Museum, Nearchus, Helen Thayer, Karen Thorndike, William of Rubruck, and Hermann von Wissmann.