Focusing on 50 of the world?s greatest explorers, from Alexander the Great and Leif Erikson to Amundsen and Ernest Shackleton, Explorers is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers? own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks that re-create history?s greatest expeditions.
Whether trade, the search for lands to colonize, or scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers looks at history?s most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind?s knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.
Includes a forward by Ranulph (Ran) ? English adventurer and holder of several endurance records ? and produced in association with The Smithsonian.
