explorers

A biography of explorer and ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.

An illustrated reference covering all topics of exploration worldwide, Including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions, and the space age.

The lure of discovery and adventure has long attracted hardy souls to the North hand South Poles. For more than a century, using dogsleds, animal skins, and wooden ships, explorers tried to reach the top and bottom of the Earth. Their sometimes-deadly treks become international legends. With today's modern methods, exploration of these vast regions continues. Inside, meet the brave people who first heard the call of the ice, as well as the modern experts who strive to add to these early discoveries.

Shares the life of the Italian explorer who made several voyages of discovery for England, including the discovery of the North American mainland.

Learn about the life and accomplishments of Giovanni da Verrazzano, who explored the Atlantic Coast of North America.

A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland which leads to the center of the earth.

"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits him for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea; nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is eager to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so se he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairy tale, and gradually he realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him, one which will prove more valuable than quinine, and far more dangerous"--Back cover.

Describes the travels of Jacques Cartier, the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China.

Dora and Boots go to a carnival where they play games in order to win the grand prize.

"In 1666 Sieur de La Salle left France and sailed across the Atlantic ... Through letters, maps, and images, and more ... [this book invites young readers to] travel with LaSalle and explore primary sources from his time"--Provided by publisher.