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From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind's knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.



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Nellie Huang

Nellie Huang is a professional travel writer and editor specializing in adventure travel and unusual experiences. Originally from Singapore, she has lived in the UK, US, Spain and Tanzania. In her quest for adventure, she has swum in the cold waters of Antarctica, trekked the jungles of Madagascar, skydived in Spain, and climbed an active volcano in Iceland, all of which she chronicles on her blog, WildJunket. In 2012, Nellie and her photographer husband founded a digital flipbook magazine, WildJunket Magazine, with the aim of sharing long-form, inspirational travel narratives and striking photography through a new medium. She has been featured in BBC Travel, CNN, Huffington Post, Wend, and Women Adventure Magazine, amongst others. She is also a contributing guidebook author of VIVA Travel Guide Guatemala.



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