The Great Explorers  19843

  • Searching Beyond the Horizon
  • The Oceans[rtoc]
    • Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Changed the Shape of the World
    • Vasco da Gama: By Sea to India
    • Ferdinand Magellan: Circumnavigating the Globe
    • Louis-Antoine de Bougainville: French Enterprise in the Pacific
    • James Cook: Scientific Exploration of the South Seas[/rtoc]
  • The Land[rtoc]
    • Hernando de Soto: The Quest for Gold
    • Lewis and Clark: Into America’s Unknown West
    • Thomas Baines: Painter of Distant Continents
    • Richard Burton: A Mania for Discovery
    • Nain Singh: Mapping the Forbidden Land
    • Nikolai Przhevalsky: Geography, Politics and Hunting in Central Asia
    • Ney Elias: Solitary Player in the Great Game
    • Francis Younghusband: Soldier-Mystic in Tibet
    • Scholar on the Silk Road[/rtoc]
  • Rivers[rtoc]
    • Samuel de Champlain: Opening up Canada’s Wilderness
    • James Bruce: Charm and Courage in Abyssinia
    • Alexander Mackenzie: Crossing America by Canoe
    • Mungo Park: Solving the Mystery of the Niger
    • John Hanning Speke: Discovering the Source of the Nile
    • David Livingstone: Africa Coast to Coast
    • Francis Garnier: An Obsession with the Mekong
    • Henry Morton Stanley: Imperial Servant[/rtoc]
  • Polar Ice[rtoc]
    • Fridtjov Nansen: Arctic Explorer and Diplomat
    • Edward Wilson: Scientist, Doctor, Naturalist, Artist
    • Roald Amundsen: A Burning Ambition to Reach the Poles
    • Wally Herbert: The Last Great Arctic Expedition[/rtoc]
  • Deserts[rtoc]
    • Heinrich Barth: Crossing the Sahara
    • Charles Sturt: Quest for an Inland Sea
    • Gertrude Bell: Poetry and Politics in the Middle East
    • Harry St John Philby: A Passion for Arabia
    • Ralph Bagnold: Ford Cars over the Dunes
    • Wilfred Thesiger: Spirit of the Empty Quarter[/rtoc]
  • Life on Earth[rtoc]
    • Alexander von Humboldt: The Great Scientific Traveller
    • Marianne North: Intrepid Naturalist and Botanical Artist
    • Alfred Russel Wallace: The Survival of the Fittest
    • Frank Kingdon-Ward: Plant Hunter in the Far East[/rtoc]
  • New Frontiers[rtoc]
    • Gino Watkins: An Addiction to Risk
    • Yuri Gagarin: The First Person into Space
    • Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Underwater Pioneer
    • Andrew James Eavis: Finding New Worlds Underground[/rtoc]
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