Journey: An Illustrated History of Travel

- THE ANCIENT WORLD
-- Introduction
-- Journeys from the cradle
-- Minoan seafarers
-- Travel in ancient Egypt
-- The expedition to Punt
-- Polynesian navigators
-- Around Africa
-- Persian couriers
-- The Greek world
-- The travels of Odysseus
-- Alexander the Great
-- The travels of Zhang Qian
-- Across the Alps
-- Strabo
-- The Roman Empire
-- The Tabula Peutingeriana
-- The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
-- Ptolemy’s Geographia

- TRADE AND CONQUEST
-- Introduction
-- Xuanzang’s journey to India
-- Journey to the West
-- Kingdom of Heaven
-- The spread of Islam
-- Arab exploration
-- The astrolabe
-- Voyages of the Vikings
-- The Crusades
-- Prester John
-- Medieval pilgrimages
-- Medieval travel accounts
-- The Silk Road
-- The travels of Marco Polo
-- On wheels
-- Caravansary
-- Trans-Saharan salt caravans
-- Ibn Battuta
-- Medieval maps

- THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
-- Introduction
-- Zheng He
-- Ships
-- Around Africa to India
-- A new world
-- After Columbus
-- First map of the New World
-- Circumnavigating the globe
-- Cortés and the conquest of the Aztecs
-- Pizarro’s conquest of Peru
-- Discovery of the Amazon
-- The Columbian Exchange
-- New France
-- Samuel de Champlain
-- Early missionaries
-- The Northwest Passage

- THE AGE OF EMPIRES
-- The spice trade
-- Wonder cabinets
-- New Holland
-- Settling America
-- Evliya Çelebi
-- Coffee
-- Slave ships in the Atlantic
-- A life of piracy
-- Travels in the Mughal Empire
-- The stagecoach
-- The frozen east
-- The Great Northern Expedition
-- Calculating longitude
-- The voyages of Captain Cook
-- The new naturalists
-- Artist in the rainforest
-- The Grand Tour
-- First flight
-- Bound for Botany Bay

- THE AGE OF STEAM
-- Introduction
-- Alexander von Humboldt
-- Rediscovering Egypt
-- Painting the East
-- Charting the American West
-- Go west, young man!
-- Full steam ahead
-- The Romantics
-- The voyages of the Beagle
-- Travelers’ tales
-- Shooting the world
-- Into Africa
-- The Railway Age
-- Trains
-- The Gold Rush
-- Thomas Cook
-- Spas
-- Going by the book
-- Souvenirs
-- The works of all nations
-- Across Australia
-- Charting the Mekong
-- Ocean to ocean
-- The grand hotel
-- Luggage labels
-- Measuring India
-- The early alpinists
-- Creating the national parks
-- Around the world
-- Mapping the oceans
-- Fantastic voyages

- THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL
-- Introduction
-- Central Asia
-- On skis across Greenland
-- The bicycle craze
-- Escape to the open air
-- Far-flung railways
-- The American Dream
-- Splendor at sea
-- The elusive North Pole
-- Claiming the South Pole
-- Roald Amundsen
-- The Model T
-- The discovery of Machu Picchu
-- Taking flight
-- Adventurers of the skies
-- Travels in Arabia
-- The sunseekers
-- Beyond Baedecker
-- Roy Chapman Andrews
-- Zeppelin fever
-- The airline of empire
-- Travel posters
-- The Long March

- THE AGE OF FLIGHT
-- Introduction
-- The great displacement
-- The Windrush
-- The Kon-Tiki expedition
-- Wilfred Thesiger
-- The jet age
-- Planes
-- The roof of the world
-- The open road
-- Route 66
-- No-frills flying
-- Into the abyss
-- Flight to the Moon
-- The Hippie Trail
-- Concorde
-- New horizons
-- Exploration in our time
-- New frontiers
-- Biographies
-- Journeys
-- Index
-- Picture credits and acknowledgments