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81) 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.
82) 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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of John Wesley Powell's expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon-- which waged a bitterly-contested campaign for environmental sustainability in the American West.
84) Polar explorer
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
216 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Polar Explorer is an inspiring and empowering story by sixteen-year-old Jade Hameister, chronicling her feat of being the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
531 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is a succession of stories, roughly chronological, about the doings of mountain men; small essays, called interludes, provide background that is critical to understanding the lives of the mountain men.
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"--
Author
Series
Sacketts volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, he forged a legend as a powerful medicine man they called "Ni'kwana, master of mysteries." And with Itchakomi, the proud Natchez princess, he walked the path of courage that future Sacketts would follow.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Mountain Books
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Artist, photographer, writer and explorer Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women a century ago in order to follow her dreams. Born into a wealthy Pennsylvania Quaker family, Mary Sharpless was a precocious child who longed to experience the world beyond her sheltered home. An 1889 cross-Canada trip with her new husband, doctor and botanist Charles Schaffer, proved to be the turning point in her life: it was when she fell hopelessly...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmer’s memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseverance—and a classic underdog tale." —Entertainment Weekly
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior–Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse race”―an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves...
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior–Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse race”―an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
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...
94) In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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"--
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xix, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
410 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
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...
97) Neptune
Author
Series
Outer planets volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three years ago, Ilona Magyr's father disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead--crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune's turbulent seas. Ilona believes otherwise.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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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