exploration

Photographs and text examine the history of explorers and exploration, and highlight many of their discoveries.

Contains a question and answer book for children ages five through eight that tells about explorers throughout history.

Examines the many factors of many of the discoveries that have changed our world.

Chronicles European exploration and imperialism in Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth, covering such topics as the Seven Years' War, the East India Company, David Livingstone's search for the source of the Nile River, and the first ascent of Mount Everest.

Describes how exploration in the Middle Ages impacted the development of science, religion, medicine, travel, and the world as a whole.

An illustrated exploration of exploration, which describes voyages to places around the world and into space, as well as related topics such as the seafarer's life and navigation.

Brief biographies emphasizing the voyages and discoveries of various explorers of the ancient world including Hanno of Carthage, Nehsi of Egypt, Pytheas of Greece, and Alexander the Great.

A survey of exploration and discovery from the accomplishments of ancient explorers to the present-day excursions into space, underwater, and beneath the earth.

An introductory survey of the discoveries made by sixteenth-century explorers such as Vasco da Gama, Cabot, Magellan, and Vespucci.

Describes the voyages of exploration made by Christopher Columbus and the "new world" he found, as well as the discoveries of Balboa and Magellan.