Sketchbooks have been a staple of the explorer's traveling kit for ages. In this remarkable compendium, you can view excerpts from the journals of more than seventy adventurers - some famous, like Charles Darwin and James Cook, and others more obscure - who have trekked into deserts, mountains, rain forests, savannahs…even into the depths of the oceans and the limitless frontier of outer space. Each entry has a brief biographical description and a summary of the expedition, and is accompanied by reproductions of sketchbook pages in the traveler's own hand. Explore our world from pole to pole and beyond with these intrepid pathfinders, and experience the thrill of discovery like never before!