SIBERIA AND ALASKA : Stranded on Bering Island / Georg Wilhelm Stellar -- The walk to Moscow / John Dundas Cochrane -- CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA : Alarms amongst the Uzbeks / Alexander Burnes -- On the roof of the world / John Wood -- Lhasa beckons / Regis-Evariste Huc -- Exploring Angkhor / Henri Mouhot -- Over the Karakorams / Francis Edward Younghusband -- Trials in Tibet / Ekai Kawaguchi -- At the source of the Indus / Sven Hedin -- Everest by storm / Edmund Hilary -- ARABIA : Escape from Riyadh / William Gifford Palgrave -- Desert days / Charles Montagu Doughty -- The point of return / Harry St. John Bridger Philby -- To the empty quarter for a drink of water / Wilfred Thesiger -- WEST AFRICA : Alone in Africa / Mungo Park -- The road to Kano / Hugh Clapperton -- Down the Niger / Richard Lander -- Arrival in Timbuktu / Heinrich Barth -- My Ogowé / Mary Kingsley -- EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA : Among the Sudanese / James Bruce -- Not the source of the Nile / Richard Francis Burton -- A glimpse of Lake Victoria / John Hanning Speke -- The reservoir of the Nile / Samuel White Baker -- Last days / David Livingstone -- Encounters on the Upper Congo / Henry Morton Stanley -- A novice at large / Joseph Thomson.

AUSTRALIA : Landfall at Botany Bay / James Cook -- Escape from the outback / Charles Sturt -- Death at Coopers Creek / William John Wills -- To see the sea / John McDouall Stuart -- NORTH AMERICA : First crossing of America / Alexander Mackenzie -- Meeting the Shoshonee / Meriwether Lewis -- SOUTH AMERICA : Eating dirt in Venezuela / Alexander von Humboldt -- Iron rations in Amazonia / Henry Savage Landor -- The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham -- ARCTIC : Four years in the ice / John Ross -- Living off lichen and leather / John Franklin -- Adrift on an Arctic ice floe / Fridtjof Nansen -- The Pole is mine / Robert Edwin Peary -- ANTARCTIC : Farthest South / Ernest Henry Shackleton -- The Pole at last / Roald Amundsen -- In extremis / Robert Falcon Scott.