- Preface
- Introduction Michael Palin
- Joseph Banks: To the Great Barrier Reef and Beyond
- James Cook: Epic voyages to the South Seas
- Louis-Antoine de Bougainville: Passage to Tahiti
- Alexander von Humboldt: Botanical Studies in South America
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: Into the Wilderness of North America
- Mungo Park: Voyage to the Niger
- George Lyon: Saharan experiences
- John Franklin: The quest for the North West Passage
- Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton and Walter Oudney: The slave trail to Chad
- René Caillié: Finding the fabled city of Timbuctoo
- John Ross: Icebound in the Arctic
- John Stephens: The lost cities of Central America
- Charles Darwin: The voyage of the Beagle
- Jules-Sébastian-César Dumont D’Urville: The first landing on Antarctica
- Elisha Kent Kane: Stranded in search of the Pole
- Richard Burton: In Africa and the Orient
- Charles Sturt: Mapping Australia
- John Hanning Speke: The source of the Nile
- Sam Baker: A Victorian in Africa
- Edward Whymper: The conquest of the Matterhorn
- Carl Koldewey and Paul Hegemann: Marooned off Greenland
- David Livingstone: Through the African interior
- George Nares: Britain’s attempts at the North Pole
- Henry Morton Stanley: Congo journey
- Isabella Bird: An Englishwoman abroad
- Fridtjof Nansen: Farthest North
- Francis Younghusband: Tales from Tibet
- Sven Hedin: Adventures in Central Asia
- Duke of Abruzzi: A voyage in the Arctic Sea
- Robert Edwin Peart: Nearest the Pole
- Frederick Cook: The great Arctic fraud
- Hiram Bingham: The discovery of Machu Picchu
- Roald Amundsen: First to the South Pole
- Robert Falcon Scott: Tragedy in the Antarctic
- Douglas Mawson: A solitary march in Antarctica
- Ernest Shackleton: Quest for survival in Antarctica
- George Mallory: Mystery on Everest
- Umberto Nobile: Zeppelins on top of the world
- August Courtauld: Alone on the Greenland Ice Cap
- August Piccard: Into the stratosphere
- Peter Fleming: Adventures in Brazil
- Freya Stark: Trekking in Arabia
- William Beebe: Exploring the deep
- Richard Byrd: By plane to the Poles
- Thor Heyedahl: Kon-Tiki’s Pacific voyage
- Wilfred Thesiger: Travels in southern Arabia
- Maurice Herzog: The summit of Annapurna
- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay: The conquest of Everest
- Vivian Fuchs: First crossing of Antarctica
- Jacques Cousteau: Underwater discoveries
- Wally Herbert: On foot across the Polar pack
- Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins: Footsteps on the Moon
- Ranulph Fiennes: The Trans-Global Expedition
- Bertrand Piccard: Around the world by balloon
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