An introduction to the various ages of discovery and the heroic figures who led the way.

Includes index.

Great general and explorer -- Pioneering seafarer -- Passage to India -- Travels of Marco Polo -- Buccaneer's life -- On top of the world -- New World -- Crossing the new continent -- Northern Territory -- Hernn Cortes, conquereor of Mexico -- Uncharted waters -- Conquerer of the Incas -- Descending the Amazon -- High peaks of the Andes -- Ibn Battuta -- Source of the Nile -- Africa, from coast to coast -- Woman in West Africa -- Continent in the south -- Red Country -- Pioneering Dutch -- Going west -- Arctic waters -- Race to the North Pole -- Shackleton and the South Pole -- Center of the southern ice -- First man in space -- Man on the moon.