Presents ten stories of adventure and exploration, discussing the lives of the men associated with them, including Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Captain Cook, and others.
Anthony Piers, a member of the New British South Polar Expedition, discovers the truth of what happened to Sir Eugene Stewart's expedition over sixty years before.
Examines the successes and failures of some of the pioneering mariners who set out from Spain and Portugal beginning in the mid-fifteenth century to establish trade routes and explore new worlds.
The life story of famed Antarctic explorer Shackleton, featuring Frank Hurley's famous photos of the Endurance expedition. Follows him from his first sailing position at the age of 16 to his legendary polar expeditions. Includes candid interviews with family members, scholars and archivists.
Answers questions that children ask about discovery and exploration, including those about the earliest explorers and traders and how they saw the world and the great age of discovery with its stories of famous explorers.
