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Examines the adventures of such early explorers of America as Columbus, Dias, and Cabot. Includes information on the events, society, and superstitions of the times.
Author : Diane Sansevere-Dreher
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812520385
Examines the adventures of such early explorers of America as Columbus, Dias, and Cabot. Includes information on the events, society, and superstitions of the times.
Author : Ben Thompson
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 125015054X
Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world today is in large part due to several intrepid pioneers, risking life and limb for the sake of exploration. After all, setting off into the dark unknown requires an enormous amount of bravery. But every explorer quickly learns that courage and curiosity aren’t enough to save you if you can’t read a map or trespass on somebody else’s land! In this fourth installment of the Epic Fails series, authors Erik Slader and Ben Thompson introduces readers to an international cast of trailblazers and details every mutiny, wrong turn, and undiscovered city of gold behind the age of exploration.
Author : Diane Sansevere-Dreher
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780606113052
Examines the adventures of such early explorers of America as Columbus, Dias, and Cabot. Includes information on the events, society, and superstitions of the times.
Author : Erik Slader
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2019
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781549092510
"Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world today is in large part due to several intrepid pioneers, risking life and limb for the sake of exploration. After all, setting off into the dark unknown requires an enormous amount of bravery. But every explorer quickly learns that courage and curiosity aren't enough to save you if you can't read a map or trespass on somebody else's land! In this fourth installment of the Epic Fails series, authors Erik Slader and Ben Thompson introduces readers to an international cast of trailblazers and details every mutiny, wrong turn, and undiscovered city of gold behind the age of exploration."--Book jacket.
Author : Ed Wright
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1741961394
The stories in this book are tragic, mysterious, thrilling and rip-roaring and their subjects include heroes, villains and misguided innocents. It features approximately 80 adventurers who gave their lives in the cause of discovery. Each chapter discusses the adventurers chronologically and covers their career up to their end.
Author : Mark Greenwood
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780143309277
In 1848 the famous explorer Ludwig Leichhardt sets out on an epic journey. His aim is to cross Australia from east to west, but he never reaches his destination and no one from his expedition is ever seen again. Countless search parties set out to look for the expedition but no trace is ever found. Until a young boy is given an artefact with an incredible story . . .
Author : Alexander MacDonald
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781721075690
From the Preface:In this work I have endeavoured to portray a phase of life in a far-away land, a land concerning which we have only too little knowledge at the present time, though it is one of our Empire's greatest colonies. I am aware that to make a book composed largely of real happenings-especially when one writes for the youth of the nation-is a somewhat unusual thing to do. In The Lost Explorers I have given a tale of gold-digging and of exploration-a tale, for the most part, of events that have actually happened. My characters are all drawn-however crudely-from life; my descriptions are those of one who has seen and felt in a similar environment. My boys in the story were real boys, and they dared and suffered and accomplished together. As for Mackay, he is still a power in the land, ready and willing always, as he said to his young companions, "to shed the light of his great knowledge abroad for the benefit of mankind in general".
Author : Frieda Wishinsky
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1443100102
Discover why each of these 12 intrepid explorers risked everything to conquer the great unknown. Explorers have transformed the world with their curiosity. But with great knowledge comes great responsibility, and thriving on adventure has often lead to great danger. The explorers profiled here will give younger readers a fascinating survey of the history of this most dramatic of pastimes. The themes that are explored are: what motivated these explorers? What were they looking for, and what did they actually find? How did their journeys change their lives and the lives of the people they met? The explorers included are: Samuel de Champlain Marco Polo Henry Hudson Christopher Columbus James Cook Hernán Cortés Lewis and Clark John Franklin Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson Roald Amundsen
Author : George W. Delong
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1582182817
Lieutenant George Washington De Long was an American explorer whose disastrous Arctic expedition gave evidence of a continuous ocean current across the Polar Regions. In July of 1879 he set sail from San Francisco taking the Jeannette through the Bering Strait and heading for Wrangel Island, off the northeast coast of Siberia. On September 5th, the ship became trapped in the pack ice near Herald Island (now Gerald Island), east of Wrangel. With crewman George Melville’s engineering skill, the boat was kept afloat for almost two years until it was finally crushed on June 12, 1881. The crew, including De Long, escaped with most of their provisions and three small boats. Their destination, the Siberian coast, lay some 600 miles away. They endured extreme hardships for the next two months as they crossed the ice. After reaching open water, one of the boats and the men aboard were lost. The remaining two boats became separated. De Long's boat reached the eastern side of the Lena River delta, Melville’s, reached the western side. Melville's party was rescued, but De Long and his men died of exposure and starvation. Melville later led an expedition that found the remains of De Long and his party the following Spring. De Long's journal, in which he made regular entries until shortly before his death, was found a year later and published as The Voyage of the Jeannette (1883). Three years after the Jeannette was sunk, wreckage from it was found on an ice floe on the southwest coast of Greenland, a discovery that gave new support to the theory of trans-Arctic drift.
Author : Alexader MacDonald
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2016-05-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781358401947
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