exploration

A color-illustrated biography of French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who discovered the Ottawa River, founded the city of Quebec, and worked to establish French colonies on his travels to North America in the early seventeenth century.

Chronicles the life and journeys of seventeenth-century English explorer Henry Hudson, who searched for a passage through the northern seas to Asia and became the namesake of the Hudson River.

Tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.

A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.

On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system.

Discusses the voyages of Christopher Columbus who determined to beat everyone in the race to the Indies.