discovery and exploration

Describes in simple text the early explorers and adventurers who first came to the shores of North America.

Chronicles the search for the Northwest Passage--a route to Asia through the Arctic Ocean--describing the efforts of such men as John Franklin, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, and Roald Amundsen.

Discusses Minik Wallace, a young Eskimo boy brought to New York in 1897 along with his father, whose skeleton was put on display in the Museum of Natural History; Minik's years as a "specimen"; his displacement both in America and in Greenland upon his return there; Arctic exploration; and early anthropology.

A view of America that once was, drawn from journals and letters kept by explorers from the Norsemen of the sagas to the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Chronicles Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole.

Surveys the history of exploration in Alaska, from its discovery to its achieving statehood.

An account of those men who hunted in the vast American wilderness, of the highlights of the fur trade, and of a unique, unforgettable way of life.

Chronicles the lives and expeditions of Henry Stanley and David Livingstone as they unlocked many geographic secrets of Africa and traces the history of European colonialism on the African continent.

The author describes his experiences and impressions during a journey to the Arctic.

While Mungo Park is embarked on the first of his two expeditions to chart the course of the Niger River, scoundrel Ned Rise is on his own outlandish career in London. He eventually becomes Park's Sancho Panza.