discovery and exploration

David Hempleman-Adams discusses the mountain-climbing and arctic exploring experiences he has had, including his trips to the North and South Poles, climbing the seven tallest mountains in the world, and participating in the Ultimate Challenge expedition.

Chronicle the history of the New World from prehistory to 1542, covering the migration of native peoples into North America and European exploration.

A study of deSoto, Coronado, Drake, Hudson, and others who crossed the oceans as European nations vied for wealth and power throughout the New World, often to the detriment of natives.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were the two figures at the heart of the Corps of Discovery. Students will learn how these two men first met and how they came to be tasked with this expedition.

Examines the exploration of the Arctic, the lives that were lost, and who really reached the North Pole first.

Recounts the first attempt of John Jacob Astor and President Thomas Jefferson in 1810 to send advance parties both overland and by sea to settle the western Coast of North America, in what is now Oregon, and the ultimate failure of the expedition.

A biography of the army officer and explorer who discovered, among other places in the West and Southwest, the great Rocky Mountain peak in Colorado that bears his name.

This book describes the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the winter of 1804 near Bismarck, North Dakota, and tells of the exploration of the Missouri River to the Three Forks of the Missouri.

This book describes the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the fall of 1805 near Weippe, Idaho, as they travel to Gray's Bay, twenty miles from the Pacific Ocean, and build Fort Clatsop as a winter home.