discovery and exploration

Examines the lives of explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, discussing Marquette's youth and training as a priest, and his mission work in Canada, looking at Jolliet's travels and love of adventure, and chronicling their exploration of the upper Mississippi River.

Describes the day-to-day experiences of several women who work as scientists, helicopter pilots, snowplow drivers, and doctors in Antarctica.

Text and photographs describe Admiral Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole in the early twentieth century and the dispute of his claim to have been the first to succeed.

A biography of the French explorer who was the founder of Quebec and the "Father of New France.".

A biography of the French explorer who founded Quebec, discovered Lake Champlain, and was called the Father of New France.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Henry Hudson, the famed explorer who lent his name to several geographic locations in North America.

An overview of the history of polar exploration that features photographs, maps, primary and secondary source quotations, sidebars, a time line covering key dates from 320 B.C. to 2009, and more.

The true story behind the legenday explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley, the journalist who set off to look for Livingstone when he went missing in Africa.

In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, at the request of President Jefferson and Congress, set out on an unprecedented two-year journey up the Missouri River and across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The purpose was see how far it really was to the Pacific and also to map natural resources with a view towards expanding the United states. The nation did not expect them to return and when they did, the information they brought back helped persuade Congress that expansion was not only necessary, it was mandatory. Their journals present a portrait of the unspoiled American West as only members of the Corps of Discovery (as their expedition was called) saw it. This landmark edition corrects spelling and grammar, retaining essential text and making the journals easy to read.