With the utterance of a single line-“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”-a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure-defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human...

An account of Columbus' final voyage and his life as an adventurer, businessman, father, lover, tyrant, and hero.

This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...

I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of his physical and psychological quest in search of the infamous ivory-trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's most famous short story, Heart of Darkness. Ambiguously drawn to the powerful 'voice' of this autocratic...

When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for manhandling nosy enquirers. But Challenger, impressed by the young journalist's thirst for adventure, invites Malone along on his next expedition, plunging him into a mysterious and dangerous world populated...

Discusses the accounts of Greek historian Herodotus and the exploration of the world in which he lived.

Traces the history of Spanish exploration of the American Southwest and Mexico.

A biography of the geologist who first explored the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.

"[This book] is about the expedition that Meriweather Lewis and William Clark led across the North American continent and back to St. Louis between 1803 and 1806. It is about the journals that they and other members of the expedition kept, the people whoaccompanied them and those they met along the way, and the animals they killed and those that transformed them ... It is about naming, discovery, being an explorer, finding yourself, and losing your...