Geographical Discovery & Exploration

This is a remarkable story, not just about the extraordinary achievements of a family, but about the power of the individual to spur innovation, ev...

The Triumphs, Struggles, and Secrets of a Captains Life Richard Metz was a Great Lakes captain for 20 years. He experienced wild weather, close ca...

Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Un...

In July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new S...

With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that se...

One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland.The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hol...

David Livingstone, the missionary-explorer, has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in the years following hi...

'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, ...

In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions die...

Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped river...