Description:
'An all-embracing history of a century of exporation and discovery.Chapters Include - Tibet, the Alaskan Gold Rush, searches for the North Pole, the Greely Expedition, Wonders of the Arctic, the Malay Archipelago, the South American Tropics, Africa, Sir Samuel Baker's Expedition, Paradise of the Pacific (Captain Cook), Phillipines, Japan, Russia, Siberia, Cuba, the War with Spain...
many, many illustrations