Geographical Discovery & Exploration

A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies...

Throughout the world, traditional medical systems continue to impact the lives of many people. These systems vary greatly in their underlying belie...

Aged seventeen, Marco Polo left his home in Venice on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Imprisoned in G...

The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the c...

In March 2022, an international polar expedition team made an astonishing find: the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Endurance, lost in 1915 ...

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centur...

A wondrous story of scientific endeavorprobing the great ice sheets of AntarcticaFrom the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the...

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...