Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Elder, Joseph Heard and Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom. Exploration from the Phoenicians to the poles in one volume - Herodotus, Marco Polo, Columbus, Cook, Livingstone, Nansen - written for readers who wanted the whole story in order. Synge wrote history for the young and did it better than most who wrote for adults. Its 154 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.