From the Vikings to the Space Race, the story of humankind is entwined with our search for what lies over the hills, across the sea or beyond the stars. In this special edition from the makers of History Revealed magazine, we meet the intrepid travellers whose exploits have made them household names
INSIDE YOU WILL FIND:
- Enthralling tales of discovery - Maps and illustrations - Revealing images and expert analysis
Welcome
Great Explorers
MYSTERY ON EVEREST: MALLORY AND IRVINE’S CLIMB TO THE TOP • Wrap up warm and explore a high-altitude enigma that might one day see the history of Earth’s highest mountain rewritten
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GEOGRAPHY
GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE TUDOR AGE
1 INTO THE DARKNESS • Europeans had no idea what wonders or terrors awaited them in uncharted waters
2 WHO WENT WHERE AND WHEN? • East and west, the pioneers forged routes around the globe
3 THE SPICE RACE • To break into the lucrative spice trade, Europeans competed to find a sea route to India
4 ROUND THE WORLD • Spain’s attempt to find a route to India ended in the first circumnavigation of the globe
5 A SAILOR’S LIFE • Life at sea was a struggle – the odds of staying alive and finding your way home were not good
EUROPEANS IN AMERICA • Explorers Columbus and Cabot could both have claimed they reached the New World first but, while one found fame, fortune (and later on, disgrace), the other almost disappeared from history
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AGE OF DISCOVERY ARE STILL FELT TODAY
WELSH WANDERERS • Did a Welshman reach America in 1170?
TIMELINE Milestones in the Age of Exploration • With few charts to guide the way, early European navigators risked danger and death to seek treasure and new lands
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ENGLAND’S SEA DRAGON • The first Englishman to sail around the world, Drake was feted at home for filling Elizabeth I’s coffers with stolen treasure, but hated by Spain, who feared the man they called ‘El Draque’
SIR WALTER RALEIGH • The explorer who dreamed of El Dorado
GET HOOKED! • Our shortlist of where to find out more about the exciting Age of Discovery
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IBN BATTUTA’S WORLD TOUR • Meet a 14th-century Moroccan globetrotter, whose 29-year journey led him over 75,000 miles across three continents, visiting some 44 modern-day countries…
DAR AL-ISLAM
LEIF ERIKSON’S VOYAGE TO VINLAND • Follow the sagas and explore the exploits of the very first Europeans to visit America
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ALL OVER THE MAP
IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CITY OF Z • When a gentleman explorer set off to find El Dorado under the media spotlight, he wasn’t to know that his expedition would conclude with a very unexpected headline
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GEOGRAPHY
THE MAN WHO REDREW THE MAP • Captain James Cook’s globe-spanning voyages not only revealed previously uncharted lands, but were packed with adventure and bloodshed
CAPTAIN’S COOK THIRD VOYAGE
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THE EARLIER ADVENTURES
MARCO POLO THE ORIGINAL GLOBETROTTER • He changed the way the Western world looked at the planet, but we may never have heard of him at all if it weren’t for a serendipitous meeting in jail
AT HOME WITH THE MONGOLS
DID MARCO COOK THE BOOK?
LEWIS AND CLARK • It was an 8,000-mile mission into the unknown. Follow the men who canoed uphill across a continent to unite America with its manifest destiny…
GEOGRAPHY
THE MAIN PLAYERS
SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION • In the midst of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, one Brit was determined to reach the South Pole: Robert Falcon Scott…
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