This book tells about 20 famous travelers and scientists, whose discoveries radically changed the ideas of mankind about the world around them. Which navigator was the first to reach the shores of North America? Who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, whose existence was previously considered fiction? Who managed to find the skeletons of Velociraptor, Protoceratops and other dinosaurs? Who managed to break the record of the hero of Jules Verne's novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" at the end of the 19th century? The encyclopedia will answer all these and many other questions about famous discoverers.