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85 pages colour illustrations, maps Includes lift the flap pages, cutaways, cross-sections and folded pages Contents includes: Pytheas the Greek sails to Ultima Thule -- Leif Eriksson reaches the coast of America -- Marco Polo's adventures in Asia -- Zheng He's treasure fleet crosses the Western Sea -- Searchin for spice with Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan -- Captain Cook maps the Pacific Ocean -- Steaming upriver with David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley -- Umberto Nobile flies across the Arctic -- The Piccards soar to the stratosphere and plunge to the Mariana Trench -- Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary scale Mount Everest -- Apollo 11 rockets into space