The only anthology of explorers by someone with experience of surviving all the great hostile environments. In his anthology of exploration, something of a treasure-trove, Benedict Allen argues that as well as the traditional view of an explorer (pith-helmeted and largely belonging to a bi-gone age), we must acknowledge all those who are pushing frontiers. Thus in addition to the usual names - Drake, Scott, Frobisher, Stanley etc - explorers of the mind, like Freud, or of our physical composition, geneticists like Watson, are discussed and often quoted.