When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

But what if that was not the boundary of their charted exploration and they reached as far as the Americas, Africa, and even Australia and New Zealand before European explorers did? That is what ...

The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron, who hoped to bring riches to Portugal. The purpose of the exploration ...

Cook, uniquely among European explorers, understood what Tupaia’s feats meant. The islanders scattered across the South Pacific were one people, who long ago, probably before Britain was Britain ...