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1) Annihilation
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months...
2) Authority
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major movie deal had been struck. Just months later, Authority,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic re-imagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts such as the Sanctuary -- the remains of St. Louis -- a shielded community that owes its survival to its militant defense and fear-mongering leaders. Then a rider comes from the wasteland beyond its walls. She reports on the outside world: west of the Cascades, rain falls, crops...
5) Explorer
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2003, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text examine the history of explorers and exploration, and highlight many of their discoveries.
7) Journeys
Author
Publisher
360 Degrees
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 31 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Presents the accomplishments that humans have made in the field of travel, from hunting and gathering, to the first journeys across land and sea, to modern advances in space exploration.
8) Ascension
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Did a daring Chinese admiral sailing the world's largest wooden armada reach America 71 years before Columbus? This program examines the mystery surrounding the sailing exploits of the legendary Admiral Zheng He and his 30-year command of a Ming fleet.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks [to] re-create history's greatest expeditions"--Publisher marketing.
11) Water music
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006, c1981
Physical Desc
437 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, theif and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlands--to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger.--back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator"
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early decades of this century, The American Museum of Natural History sponsored four of the last great expeditions to seek out the hidden places of the earth. In eighty photographs carefully chosen from among the tens of thousands in the museum's archives, we follow those expeditions: Admiral Peary on his dramatic race for the North Pole; Roy Chapman Andrews by camel and car into the Gobi in search of the secrets of the dinosaur; Herbert Lang...
14) Brendan
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Saint Brendán the Navigator, whose legendary quest to find the Isle of the Blessed is one of the most remarkable and enduring of early Christian tales. Llywelyn's imaginative retelling of the legend is a story of truth and transcendence, of inner strength and daily discipline, and a story of towering faith.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xii, 442 p. : ill, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the early 1500s, Ponce de León was one of the most important Spanish military figures in the Caribbean. He made his first voyage across the Atlantic with Christopher Columbus and then, after years of battle with the native Taino, became the first governor of Puerto Rico. Although the story of his search for the Fountain of Youth is entirely fictional, his noteworthy expedition to - and naming of - Florida is one of his greatest legacies"--
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