Disc 1: Earliest explorers --
Scientific voyage of Pytheas the Greek --
St. Brendan--the travels of an Irish monk --
Xuanzang's journey to the West --
Leif Eriksson the Lucky --
Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville --
Disc 2: Ibn Battuta--never the same route twice --
Portugal's great leap forward --
Enigmatic Christopher Columbus --
Magellan and the advent of globalization --
Ruthless ambition of the Conquistadors --
Henry Hudson : death on the ice --
disc 3: Jesuits on a global mission --
Captain Cook maps the world --
Alexander von Humboldt--explorer genius --
Jefferson dispatches Lewis and Clark --
Sir John Franklin's epic disaster --
Ida Pfeiffer--Victorian extreme traveler --
disc 4: Japan discovers the West --
Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa --
Arctic feats and fates --
A deep-sea dive into the Mariana Trench --
