Tabla de Contenidos: “…Searching beyond the horizon -- The oceans -- Christopher Columbus -- Vasco da Gama -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Louis-Antoine de Bougainville -- James Cook -- The land -- Hernando de Soto -- Lewis and Clark -- Thomas Baines -- Richard Burton -- Nain Singh -- Nikolai Przhevalsky -- Ney Elias -- Francis Younghusband -- Marc Aurel Stein -- Rivers -- Samuel de Champlain -- James Bruce -- Alexander Mackenzie -- Mungo Park -- John Hanning Speke -- David Livingstone -- Francis Garnier -- Henry Morton Stanley -- Polar ice -- Fridtjof Nansen -- Edward Wilson -- Roald Amundsen -- Wally Herbert -- Deserts -- Heinrich Barth -- Charles Sturt -- Gertrude Bell -- Harry St. …”

“…She recounts the history of ocean tracks through an array of colorful stories and characters, well-known and surprising, from the expeditions of Captain James Cook to Pacific Islanders' mapping of currents to the clouds of exhaust fumes left by ocean liners"-- Editor…”

“… : John White, Zacarias Wagner, Duplessis, James Cook, Agustin David Osmond, John Washington Price, Meriwether Lewis y Willian Clark, Jules Luis Le Jeune, Jean Pierre Laurent Houel, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Pascal Coste, William Turner, los hermanos Goncourt, Eugene Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Paul Gaugin, Pablo Picasso, Edwar Hopper, Alexander von Humboldt, Hercule Florence, François-Hippolyte Lalaisse, Henry Walter Bates, Félix Régamey, capitán Rivière, Louis -Gabriel Viaux, Édouard Mérite, Louis Gain, Fernando Grébert, Théodore Monod, Jean Malaurie, Sam Scott, Yvon Le Corre, Titouan Lamazou, Max Pam, Peter Beard…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Domestication and Recognition of the Other in John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) / The (He)art of First Encounter at Tahiti : Samuel Wallis's Conflicts of Interest (1767) / Distance and Proximity in James Cook's First Voyage around the World (1768-1771) / Walking in the Contact Zone: Georg Forster and the Peripatetic Mode of Exploration (1768-1777) / The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, the Observations of Samuel Hearne (1795) and Alexander Mackenzie (1801) / Stereotypes Undermined: Shifting the Self in the Nineteenth Century. …”

“…These include receiving British explorer James Cook; a 19th century voyage to London; troubled relations with early Christian missionaries; overseas emigration for plantation labor; the innovation of the John Frum Movement, a so-called Melanesian "cargo cult"; service in American military labor corps during the Pacific War; agitation in the 1970s for an independent Vanuatu; urban migration to seek work in Port Vila (Vanuatu's capital); the international kava business; juggling arranged versus love marriages; and modern dealings with social media and swelling numbers of tourists. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "Il y a tout juste 250 ans, l'Endeavour, avec James Cook à son bord, se lançait dans l'exploration du Pacifique. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The "Season of Observing": Nature, Enlightened Explorations and Imperial PowerLouis de Bougainville, A Voyage Round The World, 1768: "Such an Abuse of the Superiority of our Power"; Captain James Cook, 1774 - Distantiation or Incorporation of the "Other"?…”

“…In 2016, Rick was tragically killed in a car crash while driving to a seminar at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. The book contains a total of 17 papers on communicable diseases in tropical environments, many of them published by Rick's former colleagues and co-researchers. …”