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"From the discovery of a strange parchment in an old book to the fantastic descent through a dormant volcano into a subterranean world of danger and beauty, A Journey to the Center of the Earth is as wonderfully entertaining today as when it was first published. One of Jules Verne's finest novels, its unique combination of "hard" science and vivid imagination helped establish this brilliant Frenchman as the father of modern science fiction. A high-tension...
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Even the darkest stars volume 1
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English
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Kamzin dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. Then River Shara, the greatest explorer ever known, arrives and demands to hire Kamzin -- not her older sister Lusha, as everyone had expected -- for his next expedition. River's mission to retrieve a rare talisman for the emperor; it means climbing Raksha, the tallest and deadliest mountain...
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Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1990]
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127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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A biography of the Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world, thus providing the first positive proof that the earth is round.
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Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
2000.
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm.
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English
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Describes the efforts of such men as Coronado, de Soto, Drake, and, in particular, Lewis and Clark to search for what came to be known as the Northwest Passage.
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Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
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128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Traces the lives, careers, and achievements of the two men who, under instructions from President Jefferson, explored the American Northwest and the lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
16) Eclipse
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
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380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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