This book describes the background to this amazing journey, focusing on economic pressures & technological advances that combined to make it possible. Also examines native societies & effects of discovery.
Henry Stanley and David Livingstone revealed Africa to the rest of the world.Though these two men became one of the most famous partnership in the history of exploration, they actually met only once and spent only a few months together.
Text and photographic illustrations describe the explorations of Ferdinand Magellan and Vasco da Gama in the sixteenth century which led to the establishment of Spanish and Portuguese empires around the world.