discovery and exploration

A tale of seven adventurers who left the summer camp of Coronado's army and struck out into the great Southwest to find the golden cities of Cibola.

Introduces Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who, during their exploration of the West for Thomas Jefferson, captured a prairie dog and sent it to the President as a gift.

Presents an introduction to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, providing information on the Louisiana Purchase and their travels westward to Oregon from 1804 to 1806.

Describes the expedition made by Lewis and Clark in which they journeyed from Saint Louis to the Pacific.

Describes the travels of Stanley and Livingstone as they unlocked many geographic secrets of Africa.

Profiles the life and adventures of Daniel Boone; chronicling his childhood in Pennsylvania, service in the French and Indian War, journey across the Appalachians, and settlement of Boonesboro, Kentucky; and includes illustrations, maps, and primary source quotations.

Follows the British adventurer Robert Swan and two other explorers on an exciting and dangerous 900-mile trek to the South Pole, following in the footsteps of Swan's chidhood hero, Robert Falcon Scott, who made the journey exactly seventy-four years earlier.

Revisits the explorers and expeditions that flocked to the newly discovered continent of Antarctica in 1912.

Presents African history, discoveries and exploration through the centuries.

These adventurers charted previously unknown territories, encountered, and often tragically exploited, native peoples, and changed the fate of the global landscape.