The picture history of great explorers / Gillian Clements.

Includes index.

The first explorers -- The ancient explorers -- Saint Brendan -- Leif Eriksson -- Kublai Khan -- Marco Polo -- Ibn Battuta -- Henry the Navigator -- Bartolomeu Dias -- John Cabot -- Christopher Columbus -- Vasco da Gama -- Amerigo Vespucci -- Hernan Cortes -- Francisco Pizarro -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Jacques Cartier -- Richard Chancellor -- Martin Frobisher -- Francis Drake -- Walter Raleigh -- Jan Huygen van Linschoten -- Cornelius Houtman -- Willem Barents -- Samuel de Champlain -- Willem Jansz -- Luis Vaez de Torres -- John Smith -- Henry Hudson -- Dirk Hartog -- Abel Tasman -- Semen Dezhnev -- William Dampier -- Jakob Roggeveen -- Vitus Bering -- James Cook -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Matthew Flinders -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- Mungo Park -- Hugo Clapperton -- Jedediah Smith -- Rene-Auguste Caillie -- John Ross -- Charles Sturt -- Charles Darwin -- John Charles Fremont -- Charles Wilkes -- Ludwig Leichhardt -- John Franklin -- Heinrich Barth -- Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke -- Isabella Bird Bishop -- Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills -- Peter Kropotkin -- David Livingtone and Henry Morton Stanley -- Charles Wyville Thomson -- India's Pundit-explorers -- Fridtjof Nansen -- Robert Peary -- Mary Kingsley -- Gertrude Bell -- Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott -- Wilfred Thesiger -- Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary -- The canine cosmonauts -- Yuri Gagarin -- Jacques Piccard -- Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Sylvia Earle -- Final frontiers : ocean depths -- Final frontiers : space.

A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers, this book profiles both ancient and recent explorers, including Alexander the Great, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Lewis and Clark, Wilfred Thesiger, and Yuri Gagarin. Combining entertaining fact and historical information with eye-catching illustration, author Gillian Clements places each explorer in the context of his or her own time with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions and technologies which were the springboards for their adventures, and the destinations that captured the world' s imagination at that time.