Geographical Discovery & Exploration

'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' New York Times Book Review'Exquisite and shocking... just as any e...

David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes wh...

The skills, knowledge and experience that took Captain James Cook to the South Seas and around the world seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, as...

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the u...