History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration

Follow in the footsteps of history's most ambitious and influential explorers from antiquity through the space age in this captivating course taught by a top-rated professor.

Syllabus

01: The Earliest Explorers
02: The Scientific Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
03: St. Brendan-The Travels of an Irish Monk
04: Xuanzang's Journey to the West
05: Leif Eriksson the Lucky
06: Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville
07: Ibn Battuta-Never the Same Route Twice
08: Portugal's Great Leap Forward
09: The Enigmatic Christopher Columbus
10: Magellan and the Advent of Globalization
11: The Ruthless Ambition of the Conquistadors
12: Henry Hudson-Death on the Ice
13: The Jesuits on a Global Mission
14: Captain Cook Maps the World
15: Alexander von Humboldt-Explorer Genius
16: Jefferson Dispatches Lewis and Clark
17: Sir John Franklin's Epic Disaster
18: Ida Pfeiffer-Victorian Extreme Traveler
19: Japan Discovers the West
20: Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa
21: Arctic Feats and Fates
22: Antarctic Rivalries
23: A Deep-Sea Dive into the Mariana Trench
24: The Race to Outer Space
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Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

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