Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727 Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his...
Explorers
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Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:In Seas of South Africa, the sixth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, it has been over two years since the young explorer first set sail in his own submarine, with his dog and seagull crew. Now, almost seventeen, Alfred...
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Author:Millard, CandiceSummary:The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York Times bestselling author of River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic. For millennia the location of the Nile River...
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Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:In the third volume of the Submarine Outlaw series, Alfred sets off in his submarine up the dark and wilful St. Lawrence River. With Hollie and Seaweed, his dog and seagull crew, Alfred follows the route of Jacques Cartier, nearly five...
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Author:Laut, Agnes C., Neering, RosemarySummary:In the early sixteenth century, the first exploratory ships arrived on the Pacific Coast of North America. These rovers were seeking gold and silver, fur pelts, a safe passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and above all, adventure....
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Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:In Outlaw in India, the fifth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, Alfred and his crew of Seaweed the seagull and Hollie the dog begin their exploration of India with a piece of bad luck when they surface behind a frigate...
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Author:Asnong, JoceySummary:With imaginative text and colourful artwork, Nuptse and Lhotse's latest adventure showcases the history, culture, and environment of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Welcome to the Land of the Midnight Sun! While waiting...
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Author:Rogers, StanSummary:A retelling of Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers's song "Northwest Passage" with illustrations, maps, bibliographical information of the key explorers involved, a timeline and sheet music for the original song.
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Author:Fitzsimons, PeterSummary:Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia,...
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As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778...
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Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:You might know the basics about such historical figures as Columbus, Lewis and Clark, and Sally Ride. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? With juicy tidbits galore, this volume reveals these fascinating adventurers ...
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Author:Wolf, Frank, Vaillant, JohnSummary:Two decades of adventure writing are captured in this entertaining and inspiring collection of travel journalism by renowned adventurer, writer, filmmaker and environmentalist Frank Wolf. Lines on a Map is a compilation of Frank Wolf...
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Author:Kirk, DanielSummary:Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah visit a museum so that Sam can sketch in his explorer's journal. Sarah doesn't understand how explorers can possibly have the time--or the desire--to keep a journal. So Sam shows her how a...
- Author:Finley, Robert, Steenhout, IvanSummary:
Ce conte fantasmagorique nous entraîne sur les traces de Christophe Colomb. À ses côtés, nous naviguons sur la mer Océane, vaste et mystérieuse, vers l’ouest, toujours vers l’ouest, obstinément, pour atteindre l’Orient tant rêvé. Robert...
- Author:Perkins, Dennis N. T.Summary:
Part adventure tale, part leadership guide, Leading at the Edge draws on the amazing voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition to present 10 timeless leadership lessons.
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Author:Glennon, Paul, Charron, Marc, Normandin, Julie StéphanieSummary:Un jeune garçon avale les pages de cinq livres dans lesquels croit-il, se trouve le code qui pourrait permettre à un capitaine et à ses acolytes de retracer son père disparu. Afin de sauver sa vie, un explorateur se voit contraint de...
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Author:Carlsen, WilliamSummary:This is the true story of two nineteenth-century explorers who discovered 1,500-year-old pyramids and temples in Central America and evidence of an astonishingly sophisticated culture. Their discovery of the Mayan civilization would...
- Author:Williams, GlyndwrSummary:
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century...
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Author:Verne, Jules, Riou, ÉdouardSummary:When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on...
- Author:Rae, JohnSummary:
John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae’s accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,550 miles (2,494 kilometres) of Arctic...
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