Stella & Rose's Books

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Contents

• Introduction
• 1470 BCE The Immortal Voyage
• 600 BCE Africa Circumnavigated
• 500 BCE Exploration in the Ancient World
• 326 BCE Alexander the Great: Conqueror or Explorer?
• 325 BCE The Discovery of Britain
• 138 BCE The Mission of Zhang Qian to the 'Western Countries'
• 100 CE Exploration under Imperial Rome
• 130 CE The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
• 400-700 Chinese Pilgrims Seek Enlightenment in India
• 900 Al-rihla fi talab al-'ilm, the Islamic Geographers
• 982 Eirik The Red and the Discovery of Greenland
• 986-1010 The Norse Discovery of America
• 1220 The Journey of Chang Chun to the Camp of Ghengis Khan
• 1245-55 European Missions to the Mongol Khan
• 1271-95 Marcol Polo and The Discovery of China
• 1280-1330 Bar Sauma and Odoric of Pordenone
• 1325-54 Ibn Battuta Recalls Thirty Years Wanderings
• 1405-33 The Seven Voyages of Admiral Zheng He
• 1414-37 The Remarkable Odyssey of Niccolo de' Conti
• 1435-75 Portuguese Navigators Break into the African Tropics
• 1482-88 The Extraordinary Voyages of Diogo Cao and Bartolomeu Dias
• 1487-90 Pero da Covilha Examines the Trade Routes to India
• 1492 Columbus Establishes a New Horizon in the West
• 1497-98 John Cabot and the Bristol Seamen
• 1499-1502 Vespucci and the Naming of America
• 1500 Cabral Decodes the Atlantic and Discovers Brazil
• 1502-08 Lodovico di Varthema Defines the Course of European Contact with Asia
• 1513 Balbao Discovers the Pacific Ocean
• 1517-21 Hernan Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico
• 1518 Leo Africanus: Travellers, Apprehended at Sea
• 1519-22 Magellan and The First Circumnavigation of the Globe
• 1520-1635 Jesuit Missionaries at the Source of the Blue Nile
• 1524 Verrazzano Establishes the Continuity of the North American Coast
• 1526-33 Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru
• 1527-29 Sebastian Cabot Seeks the Mountains of Silver
• 1527-36 The Narvaez Invasion of Florida and its Aftermath
• 1528-44 German Explorers in Sixteenth Century South America
• 1535-37 The Nightmare of Diego de Almagro's Long March
• 1535-42 Cartier Opens the St Lawrence Seaway
• 1537-58 The Peregrinations of Fernao Mendes Pinto
• 1539-42 De Soto Seeks a Second Peru in the Southern States
• 1540-52 Coronado Seeks the Phantom Cities of North America
• 1541 Francisco de Orellana Descends the River of the Amazons
• 1541-52 Fransisco Xavier and the Christian Mission in Japan
• 1555-60 Anthony Jenkinson on the Trade Routes of Central Asia
• 1567-95 Alvaro de Mendana Discovers the Isles of Solomon
• 1577-80 Francis Drake Encompasses the Globe
• 1577-1610 Henry Hudson and the Quest for the Northwest Passage
• 1580-1650 The 'Conquistadors' of Siberia
• 1582-1610 Matteo Ricci Brins the World to China
• 1583-91 Ralph Fitch and English Reconnaissance in Asia
• 1595-1617 Walter Ralegh's Discovery of Guiana
• 1596-97 Willem Barents Confronts the Arctic Winter
• 1602-05 Bento de Gois Seeks Cathay and Finds China
• 1603-15 Champlain Brins France to Canada and Discovers the Great Lakes
• 1605-06 Pedro de Quiros Seeks the Continent of Lost Souls
• 1606 The Unclaimed Discovery of Australia
• 1611-29 Dutch Sailors on the Coast of Western Australia
• 1615-16 Le Maire and Schouten Round Cape Horn
• 1642-43 Abel Tasman Ventures into the Southern Ocean
• 1661-64 Grueber and Dorville Cross the Tibetan Plateau
• 1673 Jolliet and Marquette Establish the Couse of the Mississippi
• 1679-87 La Salle's Vision of Empire on the Mississippi
• 1683-1711 William Dampier: the Thinking Man's Buccaneer Fictitious Voyages and Fabulous Worlds
• 1686-1723 Samuel Fritz: Missionary and Cartographer on the Amazon
• 1721-22 Jacob Roggeveen Discovers Easter Island
• 1725-41 Vitus Bering and the Great Northern Expedition
• 1731-38 La Verendrye and the Elusive River of the West
• 1736-44 La Condamine's Expedition to the Equator
• 1740-44 The Horrors of Geroge Ansons Voyage Around the World
• 1764-69 Byron, Wallis, Carteret and the Scramble for the Pacific
• 1766-69 Bougainville Discovers a Paradise in the South Sea
• 1768-73 Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
• 1768-79 James Cook Charts the Pacific and Southern Oceans
• 1770-72 Samuel Hearne's Journey to the Arctic Shore
• 1776 The Dominguez Escalante Expedition to Utah
• 1784-1812 David Thompson Deines the Geography of the Canadian West
• 1785-88 La Perouse Fills the Blanks in the Pacific Rim
• 1789-93 Alexander Mackenzie: First Across the North American Continent
• 1789-94 The Malaspina Expedition: Censored into Obscurity
• 1791-95 George Vancouver Adds 388 Place Names to the World Map
• 1795-1806 Mungo Park's Discovery of the Niger
• 1797-1801 Friedrich Hornemann's Mission to the Niger
• 1799-1802 Humboldt and Bonpland Bring Organization to the Cosmos
• 1800-03 Flinders and Baudinm Give Shape to Australia
• 1803-06 Lewis and Clark Seek a Viable Trade Route to the Pacific
• 1812-25 William Moorcroft the Wandering Horse Doctor
• 1815-36 The Riddle of Australi's Inland Waterways
• 1819 Captain SAdleir Strikes Across the Arabian Peninsular
• 1819-21 Bellingshausen Navigates a Continent of Ice
• 1822-30 Clapperton and Lander Resolve the Mystery of the Niger
• 1826-40 From Venus to Antartica
• 1827-28 Rene Caillie Beholds the Legendary City of Timbuktu
• 1831-36 FitzRoy, Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle
• 1838-42 Charles Wilkes Takes on More Than His Men Can Endure
• 1839-43 The Quest for the Magnetic Poles
• 1841 Edward Eyre Sets Out to Demonstrate the Impossible
• 1842-53 John Fremont Sets the Paths of Western Expansion
• 1844-45 The Much Maligned Ludwig Leichhardt
• 1844-46 The Journey of Huc and Gabet to Tibet
• 1844-46 The Tortuous Ordeal of Sturt's Central Australian Expedition
• 1844-47 The Mystery of John Franklin's Last Expedition
• 1846-48 Thomas Brunner's Heroic Trek to Rainy Westland
• 1850-54 Anderson and Galton Penetrate the Sands of the Kalahari
• 1850-55 Heinrich Barth Wanders through Sub Saharan Africa
• 1853-73 David Livingstone Seeks Highways into the Dark Interior
• 1855-56 Augustus Gregory's North Australian Expedition
• 1857-63 Richard Burton, John Speke and the Source of the White Nile
• 1860-62 John Stuart's Traverse of tghe Australian Continent
• 1862-65 Samuel and Florence Baker Find an Alternative Source of the Nile
• Ladies in Mans World
• 1863-84 The Pundits Survey in Secrecy Beyond the Himalayas
• 1866-68 The Lagree-Garnier Ascent of the Mekong
• 1867-79 John Wesley Powell Confronts the Terrors of Colorado
• 1869-74 Gustav Nachtigal Circumambulates the Eastern Sahara
• 1870-87 Przhevalskii Unmasks the Complex Geography of Central Asia
• 1870-1900 Patagonia Gives up its Secrets
• 1871-76 Henry Morton Stanley and the Advent of the Explorer-Journalist
• 1872-76 The Challenger Lays the Foundation of Modern Oceanography
• 1873-74 Peter Warburton Confronts the Great Sandy Desert
• 1873-75 Cameron's Pioneering Traverser of the African Continent
• 1874 John Forrest Crosses the Heart of Western Australia
• 1875-98 Brazza and the Opening of French Equatorial Africa
• 1876-78 Charles Doherty and His Travels in Arabia Deserta
• 1878-80 Adolf Nordenskiold Circumnavigates Asia
• 1979-84 Joseph Thomson: the Most Amiable of African Pathfinders
• 1887 Franis Younghusband Ventures into the Heart of Central Asia
• 1891-96 Vittorio Bottego and the Last of Africa's Great Lakes
• 1893-96 Fridtjof Nansen's Voyage Across Arctic Ice
• 1895-1908 Sven Hedin Discovers a Long Forgotten Civilization
• 1896-98 The Inglorious Fate of the Mission Marchland
• 1897-99 The First of Overwinter Below the Antarctic Circle
• 1998-1902 Otto Sverdrup Completes the Map of the Canadian Arctic
• 1902-04 Mischievous Rivalry
• 1903-06 Roald Amundsen Conquers the Northwest Passage
• 1906-25 The Strange Case of Colonel Fawcett
• 1908-09 The North Pole and the Cook-Peary Controversy
• 1910-12 The Arctic Expedition that Conquered the South Pole
• 1910-12 Exploration for National Pride and Duty
• 1911-13 Eric Bailey Unveils the Mystery of the Tsangpo Gorges
• 1911-14 Science and Survival in the Windiest Place on Earth
• 1911-24 The Mystic Quest of Alexandra David-Neel
• 1913-14 The Expedition to the River of Doubt
• 1914-17 The Climactic Conclusion to an Age of Heroism
• 1918-32 Philby Maps the Unknown Heart of Arabia
• 1927-28 Karius and Champion: from the Fly to the Sepik
• 1930-31 Bertram Thomas Crosses the Empty Quarter
• 1933-48 Wilfred Thesiger Fills the Last Blanks on the Map
• 1938-39 Antarctica Ring Fenced with Swastikas
• 1955-58 Eight Men Winter in a Wooden Box
• 1968-69 Wally Herbert and His British Trans Arctic Expedition
• Picture Credits
• Index