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English
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This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born in 1734, Boone served in the Virginia legislature, participated...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
580 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. Yearning for wider horizons, American geologist Jakob de Beyn joins a rival...
Author
Series
Explorers guild volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 770 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of World War I, with western civilization on the edge of calamity, the first installment in The Explorers Guild series concerns the Guild's quest to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. The search will take them from the Polar North to the Mongolian deserts, through the underground canals of Asia to deep inside the Himalayas, before the fabled city finally divulges its secrets and the globe-spanning journey plays out to...
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Series
Accidental adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
If Oliver and Celia Navel had any hopes this year would be less life threatening than the last, they are quickly shattered... along with their television set. When a strange scientist warns them that their mother is - yest again - in peril, it's off to the Pacific Ocean they go. But navigating stormy seas proves easy comparing to tackling a Kraken - an enormous squid - and the twins think they might have bitten off more than they can chew. In their...
Author
Publisher
DK in association with the Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
A lavish visual survey of the world's greatest explorers, revealing who they were, where they went, and how their expeditions shaped the course of human history.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
82 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Discover how the greatest explorers in history plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross sections, dramatic storytelling, and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places, and technology, readers explore fourteen historic journeys.
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"One vital piece of equipment has been a constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure--the sketchbook or journal. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences, insight, and discovery, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. Here are carefully selected excerpts from 70 such sketchbooks from explorers through history to the present, records by men and women who journeyed into frozed wastelands,...
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Language
English
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The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside
Wandering alone...
“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside
Wandering alone...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text follows a young explorer as he discovers bugs and then increasingly larger creatures, brings them home to learn about them, and is warned by his mother that each is unwelcome.
54) Ordeal by ice
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces inspiring women whose passions for exploration made them push the boundaries, including Nellie Cashman, Annie Smith Peck, and Delia Julia Denning Akeley.
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