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Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brief biographies emphasizing the voyages and discoveries of various explorers of the ancient world including Hanno of Carthage, Nehsi of Egypt, Pytheas of Greece, and Alexander the Great.
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes Coronado's explorations in the southwestern United States in the 1540s, an expedition which revealed for the first time to Europeans the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, the Great Plains, herds of buffalo, stark deserts, snow-capped mountain peaks--yet never the gold the Spaniards so avidly desired.
13) Marco Polo
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the travels of the medieval Italian explorer and his adventures and discoveries in the Far East.
Author
Language
English
Description
With hundreds of facts about the famous explorer and his contemporaries during the Age of Discovery and Exploration, this book offers a comprehensive, informative. and highly readable introduction to the world of Christopher Columbus and the Renaissance explorers. Features personal accounts, maps, primary sources, and graphics.
Author
Series
Great explorers book volume 1
Publisher
Mikaya Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of Henry Hudson's four voyages in search of a passage to the Orient in the early seventeenth century and the discoveries made by him on the northeastern coast of America.
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