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Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Preface Part 1 The Age of Reconnaissance

To the Heart of the Mongol empire Marco Polo (1271–95) The wanderings of Ibn Battuta (1325–55) Sailing West to America Christopher Columbus (1492–1506) East to the Indies Vasco da Gama (1497–9) A Passage to the Pacific Ferdinand Magellan (1519–22) Adventures in the Amazon Francisco de Orellana (1541–6) The Quest for the North-East Passage William Barents (1594–7) Mutiny in the Arctic Henry Hudson (1610–11) Looking for a North-West Passage Luke Foxe and Thomas James (1631–2) Colonizing the American Wilderness René La Salle (1669–87)

Part 2 The Age of Inquiry

Linking Russia and America Vitus Bering (1725–42) Measuring the World Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1735–45) In Search of the Great Southern Continent James Cook (1768–79) The Conquest of Mont Blanc Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1760–88) Into the Heart of South America Alexander von Humboldt (1799–1804) The Great Trigonometrical Survey (1800–66) Across the American Wilderness Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1803–6) Furthest into the Arctic W. E. Parry (1818–27) Across Canada’s Badlands John Franklin (1818–25) The Quest for the Niger Hugh Clapperton and Richard Lander (1821–31) The Road to Timbuctoo Gordon Laing and René Caillié (1824–8) Four Winters in the Arctic John Ross (1829–33) Charting the Antarctic James Clark Ross (1839–43) The search for Franklin (1845–59)

Part 3 The Age of Endeavour

Crossing the Australian Continent Robert Burke and William Wills (1860–1) The Source of the Nile Richard Burton and John Speke (1857–65) The Conquest of the Matterhorn Edward Whymper (1865) The Great Survey The Pundits (1865–1902) Marooned Off Greenland Paul Hegemann and Karl Koldewey (1869–70) An Arctic Drift Charles Hall, George Tyson and the Polaris (1871–3) Across the Dark Continent David Livingstone and H. M. Stanley (1871–7) The Discovery of Franz Josef Land Carl Weyprecht and Julius von Payer (1872–4) Britain’s Fight for the North Pole George Nares (1875–6) A Siberian Disaster George De Long (1879–82) Tragedy on Ellesmere Island Adolphus Greely (1881–4) Skiing to the North Pole Fridtjof Nansen (1893–6) By Balloon to the Top of the World Salomon Andrée (1897) Across the Sahara to the Congo Fernand Foureau (1899–1900) Italy’s Northernmost The Duke of Abruzzi (1899–1900) The Pole at Last? Robert Peary and Frederick Cook (1908–9) The Race for the South Pole Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen (1911–12) Alone in the Antarctic Douglas Mawson (1911–13) The Imperial Transantarctic Expedition Ernest Shackleton (1914–16) The Conquest of Everest? George Mallory and Sandy Irvine (1924) By Airship to the North Pole Umberto Nobile (1928)

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