Why am I telling you all these examples of exploration and adventure?
Because we are all explorers in life, whichever path we follow. –
Fridtjof Nansen
Exploration of the World
Travellers from the First to the Ninth Century • Travellers between the Tenth and Thirteenth Centuries • Marco Polo • Ibn Battuta • Jean de Béthencourt • Christopher Columbus • India and the Spice Countries • The Conquerors of Central America • The First Voyage Round the World • The Polar Expeditions and the Search for the North-West Passage • Voyages of Adventure and Privateering Warfare • Missionaries and Settlers. Merchants and Tourists • William Dampier • The Pole and America
Eighteenth Century Navigators
Stories of Great Explorers
Columbus • Magellan • Francis Drake • Henry Hudson • Le Maire and Schouten • Thomas James • William Dampier • Woodes Rogers • John Clipperton • George Anson • John Byron • Samuel Wallis • Bougainville • James Cook • Portlock and Dixon • La Pérouse • George Vancouver • Bruni d'Entrecasteaux • William Parry • John Franklin • Park, Denham, Clapperton, Lander • Samuel Hearne • John Lewis Burckhardt • James Bruce • John Ledyard • Belzoni • George Forster • Edward Daniel Clarke • Richard Pococke
Selected Books
John H. Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle • John Muir - Travels in Alaska • Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around the World • William Curtis - Modern India • Annie Brassey - A Voyage in the Sunbeam • Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail • Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness • George Kennan - Tent Life in Siberia • Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracens
More Books
Richard F. Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo • Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Isabella Bird - Among the Tibetans • Henry Stanley - How I Found Livingstone • Algot Lange - In the Amazon Jungle • Samuel Baker - In the Heart of Africa • Cabeza de Vaca - Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America • Hiram Bingham - Inca Land • Percival Lowell - Noto, an Unexplored Corner of Japan