Voyages of discovery : three centuries of natural history exploration / written by Tony Rice ; with an introduction by David Bellamy.

London ; Hong Kong : Scriptum Editions, in association with the Natural History Museum, London, [2000], ©2000.

335 pages : heavily illustrations (many color), maps, portraits ; 33 cm

Contains biographical information.

Voyage to Jamaica / Sir Hans Sloane -- Surveying Ceylon / Paul Hermann, Johan Gideon Loten & Pieter de Bevere -- Sojourn to Surinam / Maria Sibylla Merian -- Travels in North America / William Bartram -- Pacific Crossing / James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks & Sydney Parkinson -- Return to the South Seas / James Cook, Johann & George Forster -- Charting Australia / Matthew Flinders & Ferdinand Bauer -- Sailing with the Beagle / Charles Darwin -- Amazonia and beyond / Alfred Russel Wallace & Henry Walter Bates -- Fathoming the deep / the Challenger expedition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.