To the Ends of the Earth is a major history of ancient exploration, one that fully incorporates evidence from Greco-Roman sources and those in China, Central Asia, India, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. It presents a compelling portrait of the adventurers who expanded knowledge of the world and brought far-flung civilizations closer than ever before. The treatment of myths and epics as historical travel accounts obscures the subject matter. It presents a single Homer who depicted Odysseus's journey and geographical locations as informed by travelers and sailors in the Iron Age, thus disregarding the complexity of that epic's composition. The bibliography is extensive.