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1) Exploration
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Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
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Description
"A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until...
Author
Pub. Date
2008, 2009
Physical Desc
xii, 445 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, "A Voyage Long and Strange" captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs--these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
vii, 88 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm.
Description
For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first.
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"Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible...
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"An exploration of humanity's relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men reminds us that only by understanding this unique substance can we save the ice on our planet--and perhaps ourselves. Ice tells a story. It writes it in rock. It lays it down, snowfall by snowfall at the ends of the earth where we may read it like the rings on a tree. It tells our planet's geological and climatological tale. Ice tells another story...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
146 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 19 cm.
Description
Traces the South Pole expedition of a decorated British special forces officer--an admirer of Ernest Shackleton's expedition and descendant of one of Shackleton's crew--who in 2015 risked his life to walk across Antarctica alone.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Description
Mikkelsen, an experienced Arctic adventurer, set out in 1909 to prove that Robert Perry's outline of the East Greeland coast was erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen, a ship's mechanic with no experience as an explorer, joined the expedition. Months later, the two men found themselves cut off from the world, suffering every imaginable Arctic travail: Mikkelsen's diary was even eaten by a bear. The two retained their sanity-- and their...
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Series
A history of US volume 1
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
177 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
20) Columbus
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Description
"Born in 1451 in the seafaring nation of Genoa in northern Italy, Christopher Columbus grew up watching ships sail into the harbor loaded with riches from Egypt, Spain, England, and Belgium. Columbus was convinced that he could gain gold, silk, ivory, and much personal wealth for himself if he were to sail west from Europe to the East and trade with China and India. When Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon finally provided him with...
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