The Mammoth book of explorers

SIBERIA AND ALASKA : Stranded on Bering Island / Georg Wilhelm Stellar

The walk to Moscow / John Dundas Cochrane

CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA : Alarms amongst the Uzbeks / Alexander Burnes

On the roof of the world / John Wood

Lhasa beckons / Regis-Evariste Huc

Exploring Angkhor / Henri Mouhot

Over the Karakorams / Francis Edward Younghusband

Trials in Tibet / Ekai Kawaguchi

At the source of the Indus / Sven Hedin

Everest by storm / Edmund Hilary

ARABIA : Escape from Riyadh / William Gifford Palgrave

Desert days / Charles Montagu Doughty

The point of return / Harry St. John Bridger Philby

To the empty quarter for a drink of water / Wilfred Thesiger

WEST AFRICA : Alone in Africa / Mungo Park

The road to Kano / Hugh Clapperton

Down the Niger / Richard Lander

Arrival in Timbuktu / Heinrich Barth

My Ogowé / Mary Kingsley

EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA : Among the Sudanese / James Bruce

Not the source of the Nile / Richard Francis Burton

A glimpse of Lake Victoria / John Hanning Speke

The reservoir of the Nile / Samuel White Baker

Last days / David Livingstone

Encounters on the Upper Congo / Henry Morton Stanley

A novice at large / Joseph Thomson.

AUSTRALIA : Landfall at Botany Bay / James Cook

Escape from the outback / Charles Sturt

Death at Coopers Creek / William John Wills

To see the sea / John McDouall Stuart

NORTH AMERICA : First crossing of America / Alexander Mackenzie

Meeting the Shoshonee / Meriwether Lewis

SOUTH AMERICA : Eating dirt in Venezuela / Alexander von Humboldt

Iron rations in Amazonia / Henry Savage Landor

The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham

ARCTIC : Four years in the ice / John Ross

Living off lichen and leather / John Franklin

Adrift on an Arctic ice floe / Fridtjof Nansen

The Pole is mine / Robert Edwin Peary

ANTARCTIC : Farthest South / Ernest Henry Shackleton

The Pole at last / Roald Amundsen

In extremis / Robert Falcon Scott.