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Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the late-17th to the early 20th century, intrepid explorers from America and Europe risked (and sometimes lost) their lives exploring the forbidding, uncharted landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctica. What drove these men to undertake these seemingly impossible journeys? In this deeply researched book, author John Dippel makes a convincing case that dozens of polar expeditions were motivated less by courageous idealism than personal ambition...
6) The Dig Tree: a true story of bravery, insanity, and the race to discover Australia's wild fontier
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also follows parts of...
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of Natural History
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An illustrated history of the Vikings, looking at the Scandinavian warriors from the perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science.
Author
Series
Fargo adventure volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico"--
11) In 1492
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text describes Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.
14) Big Pacific
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth₂s surface, holds half of the world₂s water, and hides the deepest place on the planet. It is a place where huge and iconic, rare and dazzling creatures live, and where creatures yet to be discovered lurk. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program breaks the boundaries between land and sea to present the Pacific Ocean in a way never seen before.
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A ghost ship full of long-lost gold beckons, and Biggles gets an icy reception... Biggles, Algie, Bertie and Ginger are visited by Grimes, an old pal from the war, whose father, a Merchant Navy captain known as Jumbo, is in a spot of bother. He was recently tricked into skippering a crew of seal poachers to an islet off Antarctica. While there, they spotted an old ship – still rigged for sail – trapped in the pack ice. After an investigation of...
16) The trailblazers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Profusely illustrated account of the explorers, mountain men and trappers who blazed the trails of the early West, opening the way for the settlers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover the evidence that Vikings walked on American soil-centuries before Columbus. When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492 and the Borgia pope declared it a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a five-hundred-year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland , the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonization...
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