How the land was opened

Since ancient times, people have strove for the limits of mastered, familiar lands. What is there, beyond the horizon, behind the sea, at the North Pole? They traveled on foot, on horses and camels, on rafts and on ships, on airships and airplanes ... This book will tell about the discoveries made by sailors.
It is not surprising that its author, Svyatoslav Vladimirovich Sakharnov, chose this topic. The writer graduated from the Naval School, was a navigator of distant voyage, participated in expeditions in the Arctic, to the Commander and Kuril Islands, to Cuba.
The efforts of a person in love with the sea, and this book was born about the brave and the first: from ancient Phoenician sailors and Normans to James Cook and Rual Amundsen.
For children of secondary school age