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: Pedro de Alvarado, William Henry Ashley, Willem Barents, Vitus Bering, Gregory Blaxland, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Evelyn Cheesman, Nicholas Clapp, Barry Clifford, Fa-Hsien, John Forrest, Steve Fossett, Charles Francis Hall, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, Mae Jemison, Charles-Marie de La Condomine, Louis S.B. Leakey, Mary Leakey, Richard Leakey, Ella Maillart, Jacques Marquette, Mir space station, National Geographic Society, Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskold, Ida Pfeiffer, Vasily Danilovich Poyarkov, Heinrich Schliemann, May French Sheldon, Vilhjalmur Stefannson, Pedro de Teixera, Alexine Tinne, and R.M.S. Titanic.