304 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Searching beyond the horizon The oceans Christopher Columbus Vasco da Gama Ferdinand Magellan Louis-Antoine de Bougainville James Cook The land Hernando de Soto Lewis and Clark Thomas Baines Richard Burton Nain Singh Nikolai Przhevalsky Ney Elias Francis Younghusband Marc Aurel Stein Rivers Samuel de Champlain James Bruce Alexander Mackenzie Mungo Park John Hanning Speke David Livingstone Francis Garnier Henry Morton Stanley Polar ice Fridtjof Nansen Edward Wilson Roald Amundsen Wally Herbert Deserts Heinrich Barth Charles Sturt Gertrude Bell Harry St. John Philby Ralph Bagnold Wilfred Thesiger Life on earth Alexander von Humboldt Marianne North Alfred Russel Wallace Frank Kingdon-Ward New Frontiers Gino Watkins Yuri Gagarin Jacques-Yves Cousteau Andrew James Eavis
