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Author
Publisher
White Star Kids
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow the fascinating voyages of 18 courageous women who defied convention to follow their dreams and explore the world. From Amelia Earhart to Isabelle Bird, Freya Stark to Laura Dekker, these 18 women broke the rules, took the road less traveled, and went that extra mile to win their own freedom. This beautifully illustrated and information-packed atlas tells their stories, following them across the globe on bike or sailboat, planes and trains,...
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.
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
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
220 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"How do we reconcile our love of outdoor adventure with the inevitability of loss in high-risk sports? Still in his thirties, Graham Zimmerman has made first ascents from Alaska to Pakistan, and in 2020 he received the Piolet d'Or for his climb on Pakistan's Link Sar with Steve Swenson. A sponsored athlete who is sought out as a climbing partner, Zimmerman knows that he must find a balance between his ambitions as an alpinist and his social responsibilities--as...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, ... European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe-- and extend their colonial empires. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier ... Speke was a young aristocrat...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Marco Poloś incredible odyssey--along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life--is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail. We meet him as a callow young man, the scion of a wealthy Venetian merchant family, only seventeen when he sets out in 1271 with his father and uncle on their journey to Asia. We see him gain the confidence of Kublai Khan, the worldś most feared and powerful leader, and watch him become...
Author
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Way Out There is an account of J. Robert Harris's extraordinary exploits while backpacking in some of the world's most tantalizing places largely alone and unsupported. And after almost fifty years of wilderness travel, J.R., as he's known, has plenty of tales to tell! His stories are by turns funny, tragic, and uplifting, and are all told in his down to earth, friendly style. For J.R. it all began in 1966 when, as a young New Yorker, he impulsively...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A wide ranging, philosophical, and sensual account of early deep sea exploration and its afterlives, The Bathysphere Book begins with the first ever voyage to the deep ocean in 1930 and expands to explore the adventures and entanglements of its all-too-human participants at a time when the world still felt entirely new.
In the summer of 1930, aboard a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, marine biologist Gloria Hollister sat on a crate,...
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
vii, 263 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beginning above Flaming Gorge Dam in southwestern Wyoming, the Green River traverses the complete variety of terrain on the Colorado Plateau before joining the Colorado River above Cataract Canyon in southeastern Utah. Like its more famous cousin, the Colorado, the Green has captivated, capsized, and cajoled all types of characters with challenges and beauty to match its geologic variety. In this anthology, editor Alan Blackstock brings this mysterious,...
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