Table of Contents

• 4: From Levison Wood ...
• 6: Out of Africa
• 8: The Egyptians
• 10: The Hajj
• 12: Alexander the Great
• 16: The Silk Road
• 18: The Vikings
• 20: Marco Polo
• 22: How to be an Explorer
• 24: Ibn Battuta
• 28: Zheng He
• 30: Christopher Columbus
• 32: Magellan and Drake
• 34: Captain James Cook
• 38: Lewis and Clark
• 40: Charles Darwin
• 42: Trailblazers
• 44: Burton, Speke and Baker
• 46: The Heart of Africa
• 48: Nellie Bly
• 50: To the Poles
• 52: Women in the Middle East
• 54: Amelia Earhart
• 58: Mount Everest
• 60: Into Space
• 62: Mariana Trench
• 64: Index

About the Author

Levison Wood (Author) Levison Wood is an award-winning author, explorer and photographer who specialises in documenting people and cultures in remote regions and post-conflict zones. His work has taken him around the world leading expeditions on five continents and he is an elected fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.Levison's second book, Walking the Himalayas, was voted Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards and his other books, Walking the Nile and Walking the Americas, were both Sunday Times bestsellers. He has presented several critically acclaimed documentaries including From Russia to Iran: Crossing the Wild Frontier where he re-traced part of his Silk Road adventures in a four-part series for Channel 4.