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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
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
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
State-of-the-art cartography is organized chronologically by region to chart the course of North American exploration from the pre-Columbian voyages to the race to the North Pole in 1909.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers. Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at the Academy than he discovers that his family has a mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic, on a voyage into the unknown. He was looking for a quicker route to the Indies. Whe he found was a whole New World...
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
207 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the lives of thirteen explorers who played significant roles in forging the way for the settlement of the West, including Jedidiah Smith, John Colter, and the team of Lewis and Clark.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Peter Hillary's physical and emotional journey across the icy wastes of Antarctica. A place where the thoughts and memories of a lifetime were called forth by the blank slate of the Antarctic snows -- so real that the ghosts of lost friends and loved ones walked with him in the white maelstrom.
27) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 blu-ray discs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 376 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Don't take women when you go exploring!' In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, the president of the Explorers Club, told hundreds of female students at Barnard College that women and exploration could never mix. He obviously didn't know a thing about either. [This book] is the ... story of the women who broke apart the stuffy men's club and founded the Society of Woman Geographers (SWG), and how some key members--including Blair Niles, Amelia Earhart,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dora and Boots invite their friends to have some fun in the sun. Help save Baby Crab, work with a Snowman and Jack-O-Lantern to fix the mixed up seasons, and more.
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
Gareth Stevens Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the adventures of the seventeenth-century English explorer, from his search for a short route from Europe to the Orient to his mysterious disappearance after members of his crew mutinied.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the experiences of Meriwether Lewis, the man chosen by President Jefferson to lead a voyage from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, discusses the experiences of those who took part in the expedition, and tells of the leading political, scientific, and military figures involved in the mapping of the American West.
33) 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
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the Portuguese explorer who became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean and whose expedition completed its voyage around the world after his death en route.
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...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses quotes from the travelers' own journals to tell the story of the 1804 expedition undertaken by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to search for a river route to the Pacific Ocean, and features illustrations based upon descriptions from the journals, as well as drawings and paintings of the time.
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...
40) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
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