Including photographs, maps, fact boxes, and Web sites, this book tells of explorers to the Asian peninsula, such as Marco Polo and Ferdinand Magellan.

Introduction -- Chinese explorers -- Arabian explorers -- Ibn Battuta -- Marco Polo -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Anthony Jenkinson -- Jesuits in China -- Yermak Timofeevich -- Vitus Bering -- Arabia -- Mapping India -- The French in Indochina -- Daniel Boone -- Lewis and Clark -- Jedediah Smith -- Alexander MacKenzie -- Glossary.