COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

[Ptolemy's Map of the World about A.D. 150]
Taken from the first printed edition of 1472 and the Rome edition of 1508.
[The Polos leaving Venice for their Travels to the Far East]
From a Miniature at the head of a late 14th century MS. of the Travels of Marco Polo, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280]
The original, made by RICHARD DE HALDINGHAM, Prebendary of Hereford, hangs in the Chapter House Library, Hereford Cathedral.
[Map of the World drawn in 1500, the first to show America]
By JUAN DE LA COSA.
[The Dauphin Map of the World]
Made by PIERRE DESCELLIERS 1546, by order of Francis I. for the Dauphin (Henri II.) of France.
[Barents's Ship among the Arctic Ice]
From a coloured woodcut in Barents's Three Voyages (De Veer), published in 1598.
[Ross's Winter Quarters in Felix Harbour]
[The First Communication With Eskimos at Boothia Felix, 1830]
From Drawings by ROSS in the Narrative of his Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole, A Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, 1829-33.
[Shackleton's Ship, the Nimrod, among the Ice in McMurdo Sound]
From The Heart of the Antarctic (published by Heinemann), by kind permission of Sir ERNEST SHACKLETON.

BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

[The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Homer]
[The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Ptolemy]
[The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the end of the 13th century]
[The Best Portrait of Columbus]
From the original Painting by an unknown artist in the Naval Museum, Madrid.
[The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Columbus]
[Amerigo Vespucci]
From the Sculpture by GRAZZINI at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
[Ferdinand Magellan, the first Circumnavigator]
From the Engraving by FERDINAND SELMA.
[Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to sail round the World]
After the Engraving attributed to HONDIUS.
[The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Drake]
[Karakakova Bay, where Captain Cook was murdered]
From the Engraving in the Atlas to COOK'S Voyages.
[The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Cook]
Mungo Park
From the Engraving in PARK'S Travels into the Interior of Africa, 1799.
[Transcriber's note: This illustration has been lost.]
[Search for a North-West Passage: Parry's Ships cutting through the Ice into Winter Harbour, 1819]
From a Drawing by WILLIAM WESTALL, A.R.A., of a Sketch by Lieut. BEECHEY, a member of the expedition. From PARRY'S Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of the North-West Passage.
[Lhasa and the Potala]
From a Photograph by a member of Younghusband's Expedition to Thibet.
[At the North Pole]
From the Photograph in Admiral PEARY'S book The North Pole.
[Captain Roald Amundsen taking Sights at the South Pole]
From a Photograph.

Acknowledgment is due to the courtesy of Mr. John Murray and the Illustrated London News for the photograph taken at the South Pole; to Admiral Peary for that taken at the North Pole; and to Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr. Heinemann for the colour-plate of the Nimrod. Permissions have also been granted by Mr. John Murray (for illustrations from Livingstone's books and Admiral McClintock's Voyage of the Fox); by Messrs. Macmillan (for the colour-plate of the Polos leaving Venice, from the Bodleian); and by Messrs. Sampson, Low, Marston, & Co. (for illustrations from Sir H. M. Stanley's books).