Eyewitness Explorer offers an exciting look at the hazardous and perilous world of exploration. Discover who was first to sail around the world, what a sailor's life was like, what the earliest underwater explorers wore, who first crossed the Australian continent, and much, much more!

Table of Contents

• Early explorers
• Egyptian expeditions
• Imperial expansion
• Viking voyages
• Polynesian settlers
• The Silk Road
• Arab adventurers
• The Age of Exploration
• The New World
• Around the world
• Life at sea
• Tricks of the trade
• Gold and the gospel
• The Great South Sea
• The Endeavour
• Across Australia
• The Northwest Passage
• North America explored
• The unknown continent
• Naturalist explorers
• The North Pole
• The South Pole
• Pioneers of the air
• Into outer space
• Exploring the deep
• Did you know?
• Timeline of explorers
• Find out more
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments