exploration

Details the life and expeditions of Ferdinand Magellan, describing his childhood, ocean voyages fraught with mutiny, tribal wars, and disease; and his leadership on the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe; and includes a chronology, a time line, and glossary.

With maps, text, and photographs, the author discusses various undiscovered places, graves, wrecks, and treasures to be discovered around the world.

Discusses exploring expeditions of the fifteenth century.

Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.

Text and photographs describe early 20th century exploration of the polar regions and other unexplored regions.

Simple text, photographs, and illustrations introduce early explorers from Eric the Red in 981 to Ferdinand Magellan in 1519.

Presents an historical atlas of great explorations from 1492 through 1600, and contains details maps, photographs, and illustrations on the quests of great explorers, sea routes to India, discovery and conquest of the Americas, Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, the Northwest Passage, and much more.

Studies some of the great explorers throughout history, including Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, Chuck Yeager, Barbara Washburn, Amelia Earhart, and many more.

Traces the history of Viking exploration and conquest in Europe and North America.