When his rightful owner repossesses the Black, eighteen-year-old Alec Ramsay travels across the deserts of Arabia to find the great stallion and help solve a tribal feud.

Presents eight adventurous episodes that took place in British Guyana, Saudi Arabia, the Arctic, and other parts of the world.

Told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary-and often overlooked-adventurers including Sacagawea, James Beckwourth, Harriet Chalmers Adams and Sally Ride, this new history of American exploration brings to life the people who took on great risk in unfamiliar territory to exercise personal freedom.