The great explorers / edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison.

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2010.

304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

Searching beyond the horizon -- The oceans -- Christopher Columbus -- Vasco da Gama -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Louis-Antoine de Bougainville -- James Cook -- The land -- Hernando de Soto -- Lewis and Clark -- Thomas Baines -- Richard Burton -- Nain Singh -- Nikolai Przhevalsky -- Ney Elias -- Francis Younghusband -- Marc Aurel Stein -- Rivers -- Samuel de Champlain -- James Bruce -- Alexander Mackenzie -- Mungo Park -- John Hanning Speke -- David Livingstone -- Francis Garnier -- Henry Morton Stanley -- Polar ice -- Fridtjof Nansen -- Edward Wilson -- Roald Amundsen -- Wally Herbert -- Deserts -- Heinrich Barth -- Charles Sturt -- Gertrude Bell -- Harry St. John Philby -- Ralph Bagnold -- Wilfred Thesiger -- Life on earth -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Marianne North -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Frank Kingdon-Ward -- New Frontiers -- Gino Watkins -- Yuri Gagarin -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau -- Andrew James Eavis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.