The Picture History of Great Explorers

A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers. The book
begins with the ancient explorers such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, through
to Magellan and Drake and comes right up to the present day with Ranulph Fiennes.
Each page puts an explorer in the context of his or her own time with details of other
important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions which were the
springboards for their adventures and the world regions which were capturing people’s
imagination at that time.
Gillian Clements includes the reasons behind exploration and how technology and
exploration have gone hand in hand throughout history. She combines entertaining fact
and historical information with eye-catching illustration.