Between the late-fifteenth and late-eighteenth centuries, European sea explores dramatically changed human understanding of the world. These handsome books combine brilliant color illustrations and concise text in an attractive magazine-style format. They recount the achievements and adventures of explorers, and feature between 70 and 110 full-color illustrations in each book.

In 1871, the missing British African explorer David Livingstone was found by fellow Englishman Henry Morton Stanley, now working for an American newspaper. Stanley discovered him in ill health on the Lake Tanganyika shore, and uttered the now famous question: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" Here is the story of their joint exploration, and the many other important European explorers in sub-Saharan Africa.