The great explorers / edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison.

Short biographies of 40 explorers organised thematically with sections covering the exploration of the ocean, land, rivers, polar regions, deserts, life on earth and new frontiers, including caves, underwater and space. The explorers covered are Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, James Cook, Hernando de Soto, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Baines, Richard Burton, Nain Singh, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Ney Elias, Francis Younghusband, Marc Aurel Stein, Samuel de Champlain, James Bruce, Alexander Mackenzie, Mungo Park, John Hanning Speke, David Livingstone, Francis Garnier, Henry Morton Stanley, Fridtjof Nansen, Edward Wilson, Roald Amundsen, Wally Herbert, Heinrich Barth, Charles Sturt, Getrude Bell, Harry St John Philby, Ralph Bagnold, Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander von Humboldt, Marianne North, Alfred Russel Wallace, Frank Kingdom-Ward, Gino Watkins, Yuri Gagarin, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Andrew James Eavis. The text is illustrated throughout. A guide to further reading is provided.