The Lives of Celebrated Travellers (Vol. 1-3)

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers is a three-volume anthology by British journalist and author James Augustus St. John. It contains over 30 biographies of numerous world explorers, travelers and adventurers who left their mark in the world's history with significant discoveries that changed the course of civilization.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1:

William de Rubruquis

Marco Polo

Ibn Batūta

Leo Africanus

Pietro della Valle

Jean Baptiste Tavernier

François Bernier

Sir John Chardin

Engelbert Kæmpfer

Henry Maundrell

Volume 2:

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Dr. Thomas Shaw

Frederic Hasselquist

Lady Wortley Montague

Richard Pococke

John Bell

John Ledyard

George Forster

James Bruce

Jonas Hanway

Antonio de Ulloa

Volume 3:

Mungo Park

Peter Simon Pallas

Carsten Niebuhr

Choiseul-Gouffier

John Lewis Burckhardt

Volney

Edward Daniel Clarke

François le Vaillant

Belzoni

Dominique Vivant Denon

Reginald Heber