About the book: year / This book will tell about twenty famous travelers and scientists whose discoveries radically changed humanity's understanding of the world around us. Which navigator was the first to reach the shores of North America? Who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, the existence of which 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.