Black & White Illustrations
| The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Homer | |
| The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Ptolemy | |
| The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the end of the 13th century | |
| The Best Portrait of Columbus | |
| From the original Painting by an unknown artist in the Naval Museum, Madrid. | |
| The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Columbus | |
| Amerigo Vespucci | |
| From the Sculpture by Grazzini at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. | |
| Ferdinand Magellan, the first Circumnavigator | |
| From the Engraving by Ferdinand Selma. | |
| Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to sail round the World | |
| After the Engraving attributed to Hondius. | |
| The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Drake | |
| Karakakova Bay, where Captain Cook was murdered | |
| From the Engraving in the Atlas to Cook’s Voyages. | |
| The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Cook | |
| Mungo Park | |
| From the Engraving in Park’s Travels into the Interior of Africa, 1799. [Transcriber’s note: This illustration has been lost.] | |
| Search for a North-West Passage: Parry’s Ships cutting through the Ice into Winter Harbour, 1819 | |
| From a Drawing by William Westall, A.R.A., of a Sketch by Lieut. Beechey, a member of the expedition. From Parry’s Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of the North-West Passage. | |
| Lhasa and the Potala | |
| From a Photograph by a member of Younghusband’s Expedition to Thibet. | |
| At the North Pole | |
| From the Photograph in Admiral Peary’s book The North Pole. | |
| Captain Roald Amundsen taking Sights at the South Pole | |
| From a Photograph. | |
Acknowledgment is due to the courtesy of Mr. John Murray and the Illustrated London News for the photograph taken at the South Pole; to Admiral Peary for that taken at the North Pole; and to Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr. Heinemann for the colour-plate of the Nimrod. Permissions have also been granted by Mr. John Murray (for illustrations from Livingstone’s books and Admiral McClintock’s Voyage of the Fox); by Messrs. Macmillan (for the colour-plate of the Polos leaving Venice, from the Bodleian); and by Messrs. Sampson, Low, Marston, & Co. (for illustrations from Sir H. M. Stanley’s books).