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"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task:...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xiv, 462 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Scott, a British naval captain, entered into legend when the Antarctic exploration party he headed in the polar summer of 1911-12 failed to return home. Fiennes, an accomplished explorer and travel writer, evokes a ringing you-are-there tone in his authoritative reconstruction of that fateful trip in a book that also serves as a comprehensive biography of Scott himself.
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Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While Amundsen, Franklin, and Peary were first to explore the furthest geographical reaches of the Polar North, Knud Rasmussen was the first to explore its culture and its soul. Part Danish, part Inuit, the famed explorer anthropologist made an epic three year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska recording not only the landscapes but also the songs and stories of the Eskimo people. In the ranks of the great explorer/writers who opened hitherto...
85) In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
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English
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The "author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history--as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--
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Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xix, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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Archaeologist Don D. Fowler shares the history of a place and the peoples who sojourned there over the course of several thousand years. To tell this story, he weaves his personal experience as a student working on the Glen Canyon Salvage Project with accounts of early explorers, geologists, miners, railroad developers, settlers, river runners, and others who entered this magical place. The book details the canyon’s story via historical and scientific...
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
410 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
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En 1925, el legendario explorador británico Percy Fawcett se adentró en la selva del Amazonas, en busca de una legendaria civilización situada en lo más profundo de la mortal jungla. Nunca regresó. En esta obra maestra de la no-ficción narrativa, el periodista David Grann nos cuenta la épica historia de la búsqueda de Fawcett de la “ciudad perdida de Z” en Perú, Bolivia y Brasil, al tiempo que desentraña el más grande misterio de los...
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English
Description
Maurice Wilson was one of the Great War's heroes but also one of its victims, when his family and his English hometown were ripped apart. To cope with his sadness and salve the wounds of war, he began an audacious adventure: to fly his biplane five thousand miles across the world and become the first person to summit Mt. Everest.
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English
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"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's 'First Frontier' beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts...
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Publisher
Beech Tree
Pub. Date
1995, c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
143 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the expedition led by Lewis and Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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Language
English
Description
"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"
In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxix, 449 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr�emont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple."--
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Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
150 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Professor Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland almost five centuries before Christopher Columbus even set sail ... This book gives readers [an] ... account of what life was like during the time of the...
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Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
xxxii, 588 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In this brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford reexamines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who died along the way with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 431 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret Arctic expedition, her goal was simple: earn money and find a husband. But her terrifying experiences -- both in the wild and back in civilization -- comprise one of the most amazing untold adventures of the 20th century. Based on a wealth of unpublished materials, including...
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English
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"An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day ... On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a...
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