Book Description
Examines ten major exploring expeditions which had an impact on the world and were intended as explorations, rather than conquest or commerce, from the first human migrations to the flight of Yuri Gagarin.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2009-08-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435891686
Examines ten major exploring expeditions which had an impact on the world and were intended as explorations, rather than conquest or commerce, from the first human migrations to the flight of Yuri Gagarin.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435891678
Describes the top ten explorers whose expeditions changed the world.
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0500774315
Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435891647
Describes ten of the most influential leaders, both good and bad, that changed the world with vibrant illustrations and detailed descriptions.
Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435891716
The giants of science, including Archimedes, Newton, Einstein, and Fleming, and their life-changing discoveries are richly explored in this book. While exploration may have been in pursuit of pure science, discoveries such as penicillin have saved millions of lives. Students will get an enthralling look at ten discoveries that have advanced our existence by leaps and bounds.
Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435891760
Describes ten of the most important battles that changed the world.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615313753
Every so often there is an event that is so earth shattering it has the power to completely change the world. These events range from when man first walked on the moon to the detonation of atomic bombs. These occurrences proved the atmospheric power of man, either for good or corruptive means, and altered our universal understanding. Other cataclysmic events, such as the Black Death and the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event are also explored. Readers will be astonished at the events that were felt across the globe.
Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435891739
Describes ten of the most important inventions that changed the world with vibrant illustrations and detailed descriptions.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435891678
Describes the top ten explorers whose expeditions changed the world.
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0500775672
Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary migrations out of Africa by our earliest ancestors to the latest voyages into space. In antiquity, we follow Alexander the Great to the Indus and Hannibal across the Alps; in medieval times we trek beside Genghis Khan and Ibn Battuta. The Renaissance brought Columbus to the Americas and the circumnavigation of the world. The following centuries saw gaps in the global maps filled by Tasman, Bering and Cook, and journeys made for scientific purposes, most famously by von Humboldt and Darwin. In modern times, the last inhospitable ends of the earth were reached including both poles and the world's highest mountain and new elements were conquered. With evocative photographs, paintings and portraits, The Great Journeys in History reveals the stories of those who were there first, who explored the unexplored and who set out into the unknown, bringing alive the romance and thrill of travel.