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Table of contents includes: Africa -- Asia -- Oceania -- North America -- Central and South America -- Polar regions -- Across the world -- Future frontiers -- British and Irish explorers
Explorers include: Mungo Park, Rene-August Caillie, Richard Burton, John Speke, David Livingstone and Henry Stanley, Mary Kingsley; Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, Vasco da Gama, Nikolai Przewalski, Isabella Bird; James Cook, Matthew Flinders, Ludwig Leichhardt, Robert Burke and William Wills; Leif Ericsson, Christopher Columbus, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Daniel Boon, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Francisco de Orellana, Alexander von Humboldt; Vitus Bering, John Franklin, Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, Douglas Mawson, Ernest Shackleton; Ferdinand Magellan