Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known explorer, author, film-maker, conservationist and campaigner. A veteran of over forty expeditions, he is a leading member of the Royal Geographical Society and Survival International. His books include The Great Explorers and Modern Explorers, both published by Thames & Hudson.

Ancient World - Out of Africa . Into a New World . Early Pacific Voyagers . Egyptian Explorers Herodotus . Xenophon . Alexander the Great . Pytheas the Greek . Hannibal . St Paul . The Emperor Hadrian Medieval World Early Chinese Travellers on the Silk Road . Early Voyagers to America Christian Pilgrimages . Muslim Pilgrimages . Genghis Khan . Marco Polo . Ibn Battuta . Cheng Ho, the Grand Eunuch . The Renaissance Christopher Columbus . Vasco da Gama & Bartolomeu Diaz Lodovico da Varthema . Ferdinand Magellan . Herman Cortés . Francisco Pizarro . Francisco de Orellana Early Explorers of North America . Francis Drake . Samuel Champlain . Early Searches for the Northwest Passage . 17th and 18th Centuries Abel Tasman . Maria Sibylla Merlan . Ippolito Desideri . Vitus Bering . James Bruce . James Cook . Jean-François de Lapérouse . Alexander Mackenzie . Mungo Park . 19th Century Alexander van Humboldt . Lewis & Clark's Expedition across America . Jean-Louis Buckhardt Darwin and the Beagle . The Trail of Tears . Journeys into the Mexican Jungle . Later Searchers for the Northwest Passage . Henrich Barth & the Central African Mission . Search for the Source of the Nile Crossing Australia . Into the Heart of Africa . The Mekong River Expedition . Travels in Arabia Deserts TheNortheastPassage.ThePunditsExploreTibet.ExploringCentral&EastAsia ModernTimes Journeys Across Asia . To the North Pole . The Race to the South Pole . Shackleton & the Endurance Women Travellers in Asia . Charles Lindbergh . Women Pioneers of Flight . The Long March . Thor Heyerdahl & Kon-Tiki . Scaling Everest . Single-Handed around the World . To the Moon & Back . Voyages to the Bottom of the Ocean . Round the World by Balloon . Into Outer Space: Mars, Jupiter & Beyond