This book will tell about twenty famous travellers and scientists, whose opening in a root changed the ideas of humanity about the surrounding world. What navigator did attain the banks of North America the first? Who did open the tomb of Tutankhamen, existence of that was before considered fiction? Who did succeed to find the skeletons of велоцираптора, протоцератопса and another dinosaurs? Who managed in the end the XIX century to break record hero of novel Жюля Verne "Round the world in eighty days"? An encyclopaedia will answer on all these and many other questions about the known discoverers.A publishing design is stored in the format of PDF A4.