The Old World - Some of the bravest explorers forged routes from Europe to Asia, and from China to Africa. Read the stories of Marco Polo, Zheng He and Ibn Battutah. Into Africa - Follow the routes of Hatshepsut, Heinrich Barth and David Livingstone across Africa. Exploring Europe - Follow the voyages of the Ancient Phoenicians and St Paul of Tarsus, and explore the Grand Tour of Europe by William Beckford. The Arctic Circle - Read about the incredible bravery and hardship of polar explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, and Wally Herbert. Atlantic Crossings - The dangerous sea-voyages across the Atlantic by Leif Eriksson and Christopher Columbus, and the first air flight by Alcock and Brown. The New World - How North and Central America were mapped and colonised by Hernando de Soto, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, and Lewis and Clark with Sacagawea. Central and South America - The voyages of exploration to the vast continent of South America by Alexander von Humboldt, Francisco De Orellana, and Charles Darwin. Across Oceania - How Australia and New Zealand were explored by the Abel Tasman, Burke and Wills and James Cook. Challenge of the Antarctic - How the South Pole was explored by Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Global Explorers - The men and women who travelled around the world, including Magellan, Sir Francis Drake by sea and Wiley Post by air.