Cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: Europe on the Edge
BOOK I. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
1. The Renaissance Explores
2. Sails for the Wind to Fill
3. God, Gold, and Glory
4. Where No Human Being Ever Sailed
5. Isles
6. Portuguese Paradigm
7. The Armada de Molucca Circumnavigates the Globe
8. Encountering
9. The Other New World
10. The Great Conjunction
11. The Discoverers and the Discovered
12. Ebb Tide
BOOK II. CORPS OF DISCOVERY
1. The Enlightenment Explores
2. Grand Tours and Great Excursions
3. Motives and Motivators
4. Something Old, Something New
5. Alexander von Humboldt Ascends the Heights
6. Crossing Continents
7. Second Looks, Repeat Encounters
8. Lost Horizons
BOOK III. MISSIONS OF DISCOVERY
1. Modernism Explores
2. The Great Game Goes Global, and Beyond
3. Ice
4. Space
5. Abyss
6. Modern Exploration, Modernist Paradox
7. Voyager Traverses the Solar System
8. New Realms, New Regimes
9. Before and After
10. Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Epilogue: Earth on the Edge
Author’s Note
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author