Including photographs, maps, fact boxes, and Web sites, this book tells of the exploration of Africa and the exploration and influence of the Portuguese and British.

Henry the Navigator - Bartolomeu Dias - Vasco da Gama - North Africa - The Sahara - South Africa - Mungo Park - René Caillié - Burton and Speke - Speke and Grant - Samuel and Florence Baker - David Livingstone - Henry M. Stanley.