discovery and exploration

A life of the Genoese weaver's son who sought to prove the world is round, telling how he studied map-making in Portugal, waited long years for financial and material support from Isabella of Spain, and finally made four voyages to the New World.

Takes readers, in graphic novel format, through true stories of escape and survival in the extreme Arctic and Antarctic.

Describes the adventures and discoveries of early explorers to South America, including Ferdinand Magellan, Amerigo Vespucci, Francisco Pizarro, and others, and features a glossary, maps, and illustrations.

Profiles three explorers, U.S. Navy officer Charles Wilkes, French explorer Dumont d'Urville, and Royal Navy captain James Clark Ross, and discusses how their expeditions to the Antarctic helped pave the way for future explorers.

Photographs and text help chronicle the expedition Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean in 1803.

Contains fifteen prose stories about polar exploration by a variety of authors, including Barry Lopez, Nancy Mitford, Richard E. Byrd, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and others.

A detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition features the dog that was its most unusual member. Selections form the actual journals of Lewis and Clark appear throughout the text.

Recreates Major John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.

Briefly discusses some of the explorers of the North and South Poles, including Robert Peary, Ernest Shackleton, Matthew Henson, and Donald Macmillan.

Brief descriptions of North American explorers and their accomplishments up to the time of the Gold Rush. Includes Columbus, the Pilgrims, and Daniel Boone.