Includes index

Sea & ice. Pytheas -- Leif Erikson -- Zheng He -- The age of exploration -- Christopher Columbus -- Voyage to the Americas -- Vasco da Gama -- Ferdinand Magellan -- The dark side of exploration -- James Cook -- Jeanne Baret -- Bungaree -- Matthew Henson -- Roald Amundsen & Robert Falcon Scott -- Scott's supplies -- Ernest Shackleton -- Jacques Cousteau -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Barbara Hillary -- Sylvia Earle -- Robert Ballard -- Ranulph Fiennes -- Sung-Taek Hong ; Land. Zuanzang -- Rabban Bar Sauma -- Marco Polo -- Marco Polo's influence -- Ibn Battuta -- Hernán Cortés -- Esteban Dorantes -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Meriwether Lewis, William Clark & Sacagawea -- Fort Clatsop -- Charles Darwin -- Darwin's discoveries -- David Livingstone & Henry Morton Stanley -- Henri Mouhot -- Francisco Moreno -- Nellie Bly -- Gertrude Bell -- Ynés Mexia -- Annie Londonderry -- Howard Carter -- Inside the tomb -- Treasure from afar -- Hiram Bingham -- Freya Stark -- Recording the journey -- Aloha Wanderwell -- The Villas- Boâs Brothers -- Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay -- Junko Tabei -- Karen Darke -- Mario Rigby ; Air & space. Amelia Earhart -- Charles Lindbergh -- Yuri Gagarin & Valentina Tereshkova -- Journey to the moon -- Moon landing -- Mae Jemison -- Namira Salim -- Where to next? -- More adventurers

"Tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks [to] re-create history's greatest expeditions"--Publisher marketing