Notes

[92] p. : col. ill., maps Includes lift the flap pages, cutaways, cross-sections and folded pages Contents list includes: Pytheas the Greek sails to the Arctic Circle

Leif Eriksson reaches the coast of America

Marco Polo rides the Silk Road to China

Admiral Zheng He crosses the Indian Ocean

Christopher Columbus sails to the Caribbean

Ferdinand Magellan's fleet circumnavigates the World

Captain Cook maps the Pacific Ocean

David Livingstone explores the Zambezi River

Mary Kingsley travels alone in West Africa

Umberto Nobile flies over the North Pole

Auguste Piccard ascends into the stratosphere

Jacques Piccard dives to the Challenger Deep

Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay climb Everest

Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon