The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself is a 1983 non-fiction history by Daniel J. Boorstin, the first volume of his "Knowledge Trilogy" (followed by The Creators and The Seekers). At 745 pages, it surveys humanity's quest to understand the world—time, the earth and seas, nature, and society—through biographical sketches of figures like Columbus, Galileo, Darwin, and Gutenberg.
Publisher: Random House (1983); a richly illustrated two-volume Abrams edition followed
Structure: four topical-chronological books — Time, The Earth and the Seas, Nature, and Society
Goodreads rating: ~4.1/5 from roughly 12,000 ratings; a popular pick in the Classical Conversations homeschool curriculum