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: Marco Polo -- Juan Ponce de Leon -- Wiley Post -- Nikolay Przhevalsky -- Pytheas -- Walter Raleigh -- Johannes Rebmann -- Sally Ride -- Susie Carson Rijnhart -- Jocob Roggeveen -- Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs -- Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager - Ernest Shackleton -- Nain Singh -- Jedediah Smith -- John Smith -- Hernando de Soto -- John Hanning Speke -- Sputnik -- Hester Stanhope -- Henry Morton Stanley -- Will Steger -- Aurel Stein -- Abel Tasman -- Annie Royle Taylor -- Valentina Tereshkova -- David Thompson -- Joseph Thomson -- George Vancouver -- Giovanni da Verrazano -- Amerigo Vaspucci -- Viking -- Voyager 1 and 2 -- Charles Wilkes -- Hubert Wilkins -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- Saint Francis Xavier -- Xenophon -- and Chuck Yeager.