| Ptolemy’s Map of the World about A.D. 150 |
| Taken from the first printed edition of 1472 and the Rome edition of 1508. |
| The Polos leaving Venice for their Travels to the Far East |
| From a Miniature at the head of a late 14th century MS. of the Travels of Marco Polo, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
| The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280 |
| The original, made by RICHARD DE Haldingham, Prebendary of Hereford, hangs in the Chapter House Library, Hereford Cathedral. |
| Map of the World drawn in 1500, the first to show America |
| By JUAN DE LA Cosa. |
| The Dauphin Map of the World |
| Made by Pierre Descelliers 1546, by order of Francis I. for the Dauphin (Henri II.) of France. |
| Barents’s Ship among the Arctic Ice |
| From a coloured woodcut in Barents’s Three Voyages (De Veer), published in 1598. |
| Ross’s Winter Quarters in Felix Harbour |
| The First Communication With Eskimos at Boothia Felix, 1830 |
| From Drawings by Ross in the Narrative of his Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole, A Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, 1829-33. |
| Shackleton’s Ship, the Nimrod, among the Ice in McMurdo Sound |
| From The Heart of the Antarctic (published by Heinemann), by kind permission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. |