CONTENTS:- 1. Roald Amundsen; 2. Neil Alden Armstrong; 3. Benedict Arnold; 4. Sir Joseph Banks; 5. Al-Biruni; 6. Wiliam Bligh; 7. Daniel Boone; 8. John Brown; 9. Paul Buffalo; 10. Sir Richard Francis Burton; 11. Aaron Burr; 12. Al Capone; 13. Howard Carter; 14. Fletcher Christian; 15. William Clark; 16. Arthur C. Clark; 17. Columbus; 18. Captain James Cook; 19. Jim Corbett; 20. Jacques Cousteau; 21. Davy Crockett; 22. Edward S. Curtis; 23. Augustus Earle; 24. Dale Earnhardt; 25. Wyatt Earp; 26. Leif Ericson; 27. Estevanico; 28. Yuri Gargarin; 29. Vasco De Gama; 30. Thor Heyerdahl; 31. Fa-Hien; 32. Sir Edmund Hillary; 33. Dr. John Henry "Doc" Holiday; 34. Henry Hudson; 35. Matthew Flinders; 36. Edward Johnson; 37. Meriwether Lewis; 38. George Mellory; 39. John Manjiro; 40. Felton Mathew; 41. Jesse Owens; 42. Robert Edwin Peary; 43. Marco Polo; 44. Buford Pusser; 45. Cecil Rhodes; 46. Louis Riel; 47. Erwin Rommel; 48. Arthur Rimbaud; 49. Marquis de Sade; 50. Junipero Serra; 51. Charles Stewart; 52. Huan Tsang; 53. Amerigo Vespucci; 54. Alfred Russel Wallace; 55. Sir George Hubert Wilkins; 56. Charles E. Yeager; 57. John W. Young.
DESCRIPTION
Courage and an insatiable urge to go where no man has gone before. Here are the people who widened horizons, geographical as well as intellectual. From the discovery of the New World to the pushing of frontiers in the American West, from the journeys of Marco Polo and Vasco da Gama, these are fascinating accounts of adventurous explorers inspired by the urge to discover the riches and diversity of untravelled lands.
