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This biographical reference divides the list of explorers by the areas they explored and includes a map for each of their travels.
The Americas
- Leif Erikson
- Christopher Columbus
- John Cabot
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Sir Francis Drake
- Hernán Cortés
- Francisco Pizarro
- Jacques Cartier
- Samuel de Champlain
- Henry Hudson
- Daniel Boone
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Mungo Park
- Sir Richard Burton
- Henry M. Stanley and Dr. David Livingstone
- Mary Kingsley
- Marco Polo
- Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Buttuta
- Zheng He
- Vasco de Gama
- Vitus Bering
- Alexandra David-Néel
- Abel Janszoon Tasman
- James Cook
- Jean-Françis de Galaup, Comte de la Pérouse
- Matthew Flinders
- Sir William Edward Parry
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Robert Edwin Peary
- Sir James Clark Ross
- Roald Amundsen
- Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Sir Vivian Fuchs
- Yuri Gagarin
- Neil Armstrong
- Sally Ride
- Auguste Piccard
- Jacques Cousteau
- Robert Ballard
The book includes a timeline, making it easy to fit the biographies into a history lesson plan. These explorers span the years c. 983 to 1985.
There are a generous supply of illustrations and photos, as well as an index at the end of the book.
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