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pt. 1. The age of reconnaissance: To the heart of the Mongol Empire : Marco Polo (1271-95)
The wanderings of Ibn Battuta (1325-55)
Sailing west to America : Christopher Columbus (1492-1506)
East to the Indies : Vasco da Gama (1497-9)
A passage to the Pacific : Ferdinand Magellan (1519-22)
Adventures in the Amazon : Francisco de Orellana (1541-6)
The quest for the North-East Passage : William Barents (1594-7)
Mutiny in the Arctic : Henry Hudson (1610-11)
Looking for a North-West Passage : Luke Foxe and Thomas James (1631-2)
Colonizing the American wilderness : René La Salle (1669-87)
pt. 2. The age of inquiry: Linking Russia and America : Vitus Bering (1725-42)
Measuring the world : Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1735-45)
In search of the great southern continent : James Cook (1768-79)
The conquest of Mont Blanc : Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1760-88)
Into the heart of South America : Alexander von Humboldt (1799-1803)
The great trigonometrical survey (1800-66)
Across the American wilderness : Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1803-6)
Furthest into the Arctic : W.E. Parry (1818-27)
Across Canada's badlands : John Franklin (1818-25)
The quest for the Niger : Hugh Clapperton and Richard Landler (1821-31)
The road to Timbuctoo : Gordon Laing and René Caillié (1824-8)
Four winters in the Arctic : John Ross (1829-33)
Charting the Antarctic : James Clark Ross (1839-43)
The search for Franklin (1845-59)
pt. 3. The age of endeavor: Crossing the Australian continent : Robert Burke and William Wills (1860-1)
The source of the Nile : Richard Burton and John Speke (1857-65)
The conquest of the Matterhorn : Edward Whymper (1865)
The great survey : the pundits (1865-1902)
Marooned off Greenland : Paul Hegemann and Karl Koldewey (1869-70)
An Arctic drift : Charles Hall, George Tyson and the Polaris (1871-3)
Across the dark continent : David Livingstone and H.M. Stanley (1871-7)
The discovery of Franz Josef Land : Carl Weyprecht and Julius von Payer (1872-4)
Britain's fight for the North Pole : George Nares (1875-6)
A Siberian disaster : George De Long (1879-82)
Tragedy on Ellesmere Island : Adolphus Greely (1881-4)
Skiing to the North Pole : Fridtjof Nansen (1893-6)
By balloon to the top of the world : Salomon Andrée (1897)
Across the Sahara to the Congo : Fernand Foureau (1899-1900)
Italy's northernmost : the Duke of Abruzzi (1899-1900)
The Pole at last? : Robert Peary and Frederick Cook (1908-9)
The race for the South Pole : Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen (1911-12)
Alone in the Antarctic : Douglas Mawson (1911-13)
The Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition : Ernest Shackleton (1914-16)
The conquest of Everest? : George Mallory and Sandy Irvine (1924)
By airship to the North Pole : Umberto Nobile (1928).
The wanderings of Ibn Battuta (1325-55)
Sailing west to America : Christopher Columbus (1492-1506)
East to the Indies : Vasco da Gama (1497-9)
A passage to the Pacific : Ferdinand Magellan (1519-22)
Adventures in the Amazon : Francisco de Orellana (1541-6)
The quest for the North-East Passage : William Barents (1594-7)
Mutiny in the Arctic : Henry Hudson (1610-11)
Looking for a North-West Passage : Luke Foxe and Thomas James (1631-2)
Colonizing the American wilderness : René La Salle (1669-87)
pt. 2. The age of inquiry: Linking Russia and America : Vitus Bering (1725-42)
Measuring the world : Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1735-45)
In search of the great southern continent : James Cook (1768-79)
The conquest of Mont Blanc : Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1760-88)
Into the heart of South America : Alexander von Humboldt (1799-1803)
The great trigonometrical survey (1800-66)
Across the American wilderness : Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1803-6)
Furthest into the Arctic : W.E. Parry (1818-27)
Across Canada's badlands : John Franklin (1818-25)
The quest for the Niger : Hugh Clapperton and Richard Landler (1821-31)
The road to Timbuctoo : Gordon Laing and René Caillié (1824-8)
Four winters in the Arctic : John Ross (1829-33)
Charting the Antarctic : James Clark Ross (1839-43)
The search for Franklin (1845-59)
pt. 3. The age of endeavor: Crossing the Australian continent : Robert Burke and William Wills (1860-1)
The source of the Nile : Richard Burton and John Speke (1857-65)
The conquest of the Matterhorn : Edward Whymper (1865)
The great survey : the pundits (1865-1902)
Marooned off Greenland : Paul Hegemann and Karl Koldewey (1869-70)
An Arctic drift : Charles Hall, George Tyson and the Polaris (1871-3)
Across the dark continent : David Livingstone and H.M. Stanley (1871-7)
The discovery of Franz Josef Land : Carl Weyprecht and Julius von Payer (1872-4)
Britain's fight for the North Pole : George Nares (1875-6)
A Siberian disaster : George De Long (1879-82)
Tragedy on Ellesmere Island : Adolphus Greely (1881-4)
Skiing to the North Pole : Fridtjof Nansen (1893-6)
By balloon to the top of the world : Salomon Andrée (1897)
Across the Sahara to the Congo : Fernand Foureau (1899-1900)
Italy's northernmost : the Duke of Abruzzi (1899-1900)
The Pole at last? : Robert Peary and Frederick Cook (1908-9)
The race for the South Pole : Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen (1911-12)
Alone in the Antarctic : Douglas Mawson (1911-13)
The Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition : Ernest Shackleton (1914-16)
The conquest of Everest? : George Mallory and Sandy Irvine (1924)
By airship to the North Pole : Umberto Nobile (1928).