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Famous Explorers
Travel back in time with these fascinating and funny lift-the-flap books! From Dinosaurs to Ancient Egyptians, each humorous scene is packed with facts and interactive flaps that bring history to life.
Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
The Usborne Book of Explorers
Describes explorers and voyages of exploration throughout history, organized into such geographical categories as Asia, the Americas, and mountains, and including such explorers as Marco Polo, Jacques Cartier, and James Cook.
The Great Explorers
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 exploratio...
The Lives and Achievements of the Great Explorers
Contains studies of Lief Ericsson, Marco Polo, Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, Magellan, Vitus Bering, Mungo Park, Richard Burton and Fridtjof Nansen.
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer
Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life.
Great Explorers Activity Book
Venture into the unknown with Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, the Vikings, and other adventurers to discover the fun facts about exploration with word searches, mazes, coloring pages, and other puzzles.
Life Lessons from Explorers
Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in exploration – from legendary adventurers such as Ernest Shackleton to lesser-known figures such as Junko Tabei. Life Lessons from Explorers collects 15 of the most highly prized traits shared by those who have scaled mountains and traversed tundras, proposing how these could be applied to your own life, whether you are crossing Antarctica or battling a mental obstacle. Compelling accounts of the life and times of celebrated explorers, highlighting when they have displayed these traits are accompanied by remarkable images of the people who have travelled to the ends of the Earth, and the places they discovered.
BK OF FAMOUS EXPLORERS
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Lives of the Explorers
"This fascinating new installment in the popular Lives of . . . series of collective biographies is full of juicy tidbits about history's greatest explorers"--
