Roel Jacobs 
A forensic historical study of the 16th-century Spanish and English expeditions into the Andes, Amazon basin, and Orinoco in pursuit of the gilded chieftain and the lost city of Manoa.
A deep historical investigation into the Victorian expeditions of Dr. David Livingstone and Sir Henry Morton Stanley, mapping the Zambezi, Lake Tanganyika, and the Congo River.
A master archival chronicle of the 1519–1522 Spanish armada led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano, surviving mutiny, the Strait of Magellan, and the vast Pacific.
A definitive, archival examination of the Corps of Discovery (1804–1806), documenting Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s 8,000-mile transcontinental reconnaissance across uncharted North American wilderness.