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Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the army officer and explorer who discovered, among other places in the West and Southwest, the great Rocky Mountain peak in Colorado that bears his name.
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith Publisher
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
441, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everett Ruess, bold adventurer, artist, writer. He traded prints with Ansel Adams, studied and lived with Edward Weston, Maynard Dixon, and Dorothea Lange. Then tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest, pursuing his dream of ultimate beauty and oneness with nature. Then in November of 1934, at the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert.
Author
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a scientist discovers he has reached the center of the Earth, he must help his nephew and a friend travel through a world of strange creatures to get back to the surface.
66) Tracks
Publisher
Starz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her voyage.
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very...
Author
Series
Outer planets novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 282 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, introduces the wild cast of characters who made it happen, on the ice and off: leaders Will Steger and Jean-Louis Etienne, who first met accidentally, on the way to the North Pole; Valery...
70) Freya & Zoose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Freya, a penguin, and Zoose, a mouse, become friends while stowaways on Salomon August Andree's 1897 hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot chronicles another thrilling chapter in American aviation history: the race to break the sound barrier. In the aftermath of World War II, the United States accelerated the development of technologies that would give it an advantage over the Soviet Union. Airpower, combined with nuclear weapons, offered a formidable check on Soviet aggression. In 1947, the United States Air Force was established....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery. The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home--hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father's obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a thousand-pound reward for proof of where Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined...
Author
Publisher
Francis Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although John Wesley Powell's minister father always wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, young Wes had different plans for his future. Enraptured by the wonders of the natural world, he was determined to take the path of science. Even after losing his right arm below the elbow in battle during the Civil War, Wes would not be deterred from his dream of leading the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon....
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, Atheneum Boooks for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares the life of the explorer and slave who mapped the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, discovered new species of fish inside the cave, and gave regular tours through the cave.
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
1995, c1976
Physical Desc
xxii, 152 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, two Spanish friars, who were tasked in 1776 with the goal of forging a route from a mission in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to a mission in Monterrey, California, and of locating sites for new missions along the way-to convert Indian "heathens," "barbarians," and "infidels." Domínguez was in his mid-thirties, but Escalante was only about twenty-five years old. The two, with a...
77) The lost city of Z: A legendary British explorer's deadly quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
xi, 400, 14 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the exploits of the mountain men who opened many trails and passages through the American West in the early nineteenth century.
79) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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.
80) 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.
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