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A biography of Sir Francis Drake, who was famous for his explorations and for helping to defeat the Spanish Armada.

Looks at the life of British explorer Mary Kingsley, focusing on her experiences after she decided to buck tradition and travel to the Congo in 1893, and discussing her studies of the fish and people of the West African country.

Presents an historical narrative on the British Antarctic expedition in 1908 of Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the "Nimrod," who became the first to reach the South Pole and chronicles their achievements as they traveled across hundreds of miles of frozen wilderness.

Traces the journeys and discoveries of Sir Francis Drake and other sixteenth-century mariners.

Tells the story of the wreck of the "Sea Venture," a ship that set out from England in 1609 to bring supplies to the struggling Jamestown Colony, and ran aground in Bermuda after springing a leak in the midst of a hurricane, and discusses the miraculous survival of all the ship's passengers who were later able to continue their journey.

A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.