Looks at the life and accomplishments of the leader of China's naval fleet in the early fifteenth century.

A fascinating narrative history of the great voyages of discovery, and is the only book of its kind to span the crucial period 1400-1600 in one readable book.

Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories behind these images--of e

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the Sout

The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has