Explorers

William Clark: The Master Mapmaker, the Steady Voice of Frontier Diplomacy, and the Architectural Legacy of the American West

Captain James Cook: The Sovereign of Ocean Hydrography, the Trans-Pacific Campaigns, and the Enlightenment Horizon of Global Navigation

Meriwether Lewis: The Brilliant Mind of the Corps of Discovery, the Continental Odyssey, and the Haunted Legacy of a National Hero

John Hanning Speke: The Architectural Genius of Nilotic Exploration, the Discovery of Lake Victoria, and the Great Victorian Nile Controversy

Captain Samuel Wallis: The Pioneer of Pacific Hydrography, the Encounter with Tahiti, and the Imperial Race for the Southern Continent

Richard Chancellor: The Pioneering Navigator Who Bridged Tudor England and the Empire of Ivan the Terrible

Henry Hudson: The Valiant Navigator, the Endless Quest for the Arctic Passages, and the Bitter Shadow of the Discovery Mutiny

George Vancouver: The Imperial Hydrographer, the Charting of the Pacific Northwest, and the Legacy of the Great Discovery Expedition

Sir James Clark Ross: The Supreme Navigator, the Magnetic North, and the Great Antarctic Imperative