THE FAMOUS EXPLORERS SERIES

The Adventurers Who
Mapped the World

Uncharted oceans, frozen continents, and routes nobody believed existed — the real stories behind the men who went anyway.

The Factology Guru Famous Explorers Series goes behind the voyage log and into the historical record. Each book delivers 100 verified facts drawn from ship journals, expedition records, geographical archives, and eyewitness accounts. The courage, the catastrophes, the discoveries, and the human stories behind the explorers who permanently expanded humanity's understanding of the world. New titles added regularly.

The Collection
100 Facts About Ferdinand Magellan
100 Facts About Ferdinand Magellan
The First Man to Lead a Voyage Around the World
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100 Facts About Ernest Shackleton
100 Facts About Ernest Shackleton
The Explorer Who Saved Every Man on His Doomed Expedition
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100 Facts About Christopher Columbus
100 Facts About Christopher Columbus
The Sailor Who Changed the Map of the World Forever
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100 Facts About Captain James Cook
100 Facts About Captain James Cook
The Navigator Who Mapped More of the Earth Than Anyone Before Him
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100 Facts About Marco Polo
100 Facts About Marco Polo
The Venetian Who Opened Europe's Eyes to the Far East
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100 Facts About Vasco da Gama
100 Facts About Vasco da Gama
The Portuguese Navigator Who Found the Sea Route to India
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100 Facts About Roald Amundsen
100 Facts About Roald Amundsen
The First Man to Reach the South Pole
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100 Facts About Ibn Battuta
100 Facts About Ibn Battuta
The Medieval Traveler Who Covered 75,000 Miles on Foot
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100 Facts About David Livingstone
100 Facts About David Livingstone
The Missionary Who Mapped the Heart of Africa
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100 Facts About Robert Falcon Scott
100 Facts About Robert Falcon Scott
The Explorer Who Reached the South Pole and Never Came Back
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100 Facts About Amerigo Vespucci
100 Facts About Amerigo Vespucci
The Man Whose Name Was Given to Two Continents
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100 Facts About Henry Hudson
100 Facts About Henry Hudson
The Navigator Who Vanished on His Final Voyage
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100 Facts About Zheng He
100 Facts About Zheng He
The Chinese Admiral Who Commanded the World's Largest Fleet
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100 Facts About John Franklin
100 Facts About John Franklin
The Arctic Explorer Whose Disappearance Became a Global Mystery
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100 Facts About Alexander von Humboldt
100 Facts About Alexander von Humboldt
The Explorer Who Invented Modern Environmental Science
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100 Facts About Thor Heyerdahl
100 Facts About Thor Heyerdahl
The Man Who Crossed the Pacific on a Raft
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100 Facts About Edmund Hillary
100 Facts About Edmund Hillary
The Mountaineer Who Reached the Roof of the World
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100 Facts About Bartolomeu Dias
100 Facts About Bartolomeu Dias
The Navigator Who First Rounded the Cape of Good Hope
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100 Facts About Leif Erikson
100 Facts About Leif Erikson
The Viking Who Reached America 500 Years Before Columbus
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100 Facts About Ponce de León
100 Facts About Ponce de León
The Explorer Who Searched for the Fountain of Youth
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100 Facts About Vasco Núñez de Balboa
100 Facts About Vasco Núñez de Balboa
The First European to See the Pacific Ocean from the Americas
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100 Facts About Meriwether Lewis
100 Facts About Meriwether Lewis
The Explorer Who Mapped the American West for the First Time
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100 Facts About James Clark Ross
100 Facts About James Clark Ross
The Man Who Found the Magnetic North Pole
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100 Facts About Fridtjof Nansen
100 Facts About Fridtjof Nansen
The Norwegian Who Crossed Greenland and Reached the Farthest North
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100 Facts About Jacques Cartier
100 Facts About Jacques Cartier
The French Navigator Who Claimed Canada for France
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