Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by DK Publishing. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780756667375.

From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DKs Explorers tells the story of humanitys explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the worlds greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create historys greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces historys most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankinds knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.