The Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo

Shackleton's own account of the Endurance, crushed by Antarctic ice, and the 800-mile open-boat journey that saved every man. Includes Frank Hurley's expedition photographs.

Ernest Shackleton

The journals Captain Scott kept on his race to the South Pole, written until his final days in the tent. One of the most moving records of exploration ever published.

Robert Falcon Scott

Matthew Henson, Peary's partner on the 1909 North Pole expedition, tells his own story of sledging across the Arctic ice. A first-hand account by a pioneer of polar exploration.

Matthew A. Henson

The day-by-day journals of the Corps of Discovery as it crossed the American West to the Pacific and back. Rivers, mountains, encounters and hardships, in the explorers' own words.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Darwin's five-year voyage around the world, from the Andes and Patagonia to the Galapagos Islands. The travel journal that set him on the path to the theory of evolution.

Charles Darwin