
The Royal Geographical Society's The Great Explorers charts the Golden Age of exploration with some of the earliest explorers from the Vikings to the early Chinese travellers the discovery of the Americas by French & Spanish explorers & the eventual circumnavigation of the globe Familiar explorers' travels & those less familiar too are all fascinatingly recounted by Riffenburgh through a series of beautiful maps & plans in the explorers' own hand Covering professional explorers botanists hunting for undiscovered plants missionaries spreading Christianity into unexplored regions female explorers & the aristocratic & down-right eccentric the RGS The Great Explorers takes you to a world still waiting to be discovered