Lost explorers: adventurers who disappeared off the face of the earth. Ed Wright. 2008.

To know the unknown is to discover it. But the unknown is a dangerous and often deadly, place. Those men and women who seek it risk disappearing into the very nothingness they are striving to define. Some of these explorers will become lost, their fate unknown for centuries, if not forever. Other adventurers will find their hidden continent or their lost city of gold, but lose their lives in the process, destined to continue on ‘the great adventure’ for eternity.

The characters and stories revealed in the pages of Lost Explorers are by definition tragic and mysterious, as much as they are thrilling and inspiring. The adventures and misadventures of these lost explorers span the centuries and the globe: many changed the course of history, and altered the known shape of the world. For every hero and courageous pioneer there were villains, fools and conmen.. There were also people willing to go in search of them, or evidence of their fate. The search for the lost explorers could involve feats of epic determination, as in the case of Stanley and Livingstone, or the deaths of the would-e rescuers, as in the case of Stanley and Livingstone, or the deaths of the would-be rescuers, as in the case of missing explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, lost to posterity in the bungles of Brazil in 1925. Lost Explorers is an encyclopaedia of 80 adventurers who gave their lives for the cause of discovery.