Explorers and Discoverers

Provides detailed biographies of men and women who have explored unchartered territories.

Volume 3 A section of color plates, Modern Times, appears between pages 124 and 125.

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Peary, Robert Edwin

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Perez Hernandez, Juan Josef

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Pigafetta, Antonio Francesco

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Pike, Zebulon Montgomery

7

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Pinzon, Martin Alonso

10

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Pinzon, Vicente Yanez

11

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Pizarro, Francisco

12

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Polo, Marco

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Ponce de Leon, Juan

22

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Pond, Peter

24

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Powell, John Wesley

25

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Przhevalski, Nikolai Mikhaylovich

28

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Ptolemy

29

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Purchas, Samuel

31

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Pytheas

31

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Q Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de

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R

35

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Radisson, Pierre Esprit

35

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Rae, John

37

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Raleigh, Walter

38

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Raposo de Tavares, Antonio

40

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Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor

42

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Ricci, Matteo

44

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Richthofen, Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm von

45

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Ride, Sally Kristen

46

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Rivera, Juan Maria de

47

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Roggeveen, Jacob

48

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Rohlfs, Friedrich Gerhard

50

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Rondon, Candido Mariano da Silva

51

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Roosevelt, Theodore

52

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Ross, James Clark

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Schiltberger, Johann

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Schnitzer, Eduard

58

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Schomburgk, Robert Hermann

59

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Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon

59

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Schweinfurth, Georg August

60

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Scoresby, William

61

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Scott, Robert Falcon

62

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Serra, Junipero

65

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Shackleton, Ernest Henry

67

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Sheldon, May French

69

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Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr.

70

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Simpson, Thomas

71

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Singh, Kishen

72

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Singh, Nain

74

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Sintra, Pedro de

76

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Smith, Jedediah Strong

77

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Smith, John

79

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Smith, William

81

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Soto, Hernando de

81

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Speke, John Hanning

85

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Stanley, Henry Morton

87

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Stark, Freya

91

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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

92

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Stein, Mark Aurel

94

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Stuart, John McDouall

96

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Stuart, Robert

97

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Sturt, Charles

99

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Sverdrup, Otto Neumann

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Tasman, Abel Janszoon

103

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Teixeira, Pedro de

106

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Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna

108

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Thesiger, Wilfred Patrick

109

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Thompson, David

110

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Thomson, Joseph

113

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Tinne, Alexine

114

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Torres, Luis Vaez de

116

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Tristao, Nuno

117

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U Urdaneta, Andres de

118

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119

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Vancouver, George

119

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Varthema, Ludovico di

123

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Varrazano, Giovanni da

123

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Vespucci, Amerigo

125

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Vial, Pedro

128

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Vizcaino, Sebastian

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131

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Walker, Joseph Reddeford

131

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Wallace, Alfred Russel

132

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Wallis, Samuel

134

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Wegener, Alfred Lothar

135

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Wentworth, William Charles

136

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Wheeler, George Montague

137

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Whymper, Edward

138

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Wilkes, Charles

139

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Wilkins, George Hubert

142

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William of Rubruck

144

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Wills, William John

146

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Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis

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148

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Xavier, Francis

148

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Xenophon

149

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Xu Hongzu

151

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Xuan Zang

153

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155

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Yermak, Timofeyevich

155

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Yi Jing

156

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Younghusband, Francis Edward

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160

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Zarco, Joao Goncalves

160

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Zeno, Antonio

161

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Zhang Qian

162

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Zheng He

163

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Glossary

165

(16)

List of Explorers by Nationality

181

(6)

List of Explorers by Area of Exploration

187

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Bibliography

193

(14)

Photo Credits

207

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Index

211

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