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  • Party Clothes

    fiona-macdonald

    Paperback (ticktock Media Ltd, March 15, 2006)
    Rare Book

  • The Travels of Marco Polo

    Richard Humble, Richard Hook

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Feb. 1, 1990)
    Chronicles Marco Polo's journey from Venice to the court of the Mongol emperor during the thirteenth century, as well as his other less famous travels
    Q

  • Renaissance Medicine

    Nicola Barber

    Hardcover (Raintree, Sept. 10, 2012)
    Looks at the new 'scientific' ways of learning and experimentation of the Renaissance period, to show what health and disease were like in the Old and New Worlds.
    W

  • The Age of Leif Eriksson

    Richard Humble, Richard Hook

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Nov. 1, 1989)
    Chronicles the Vikings' exploration and colonization of Greenland, Iceland, and North America.

  • The Expeditions of Amundsen

    Richard Humble, Richard Hook

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts Ltd, Nov. 28, 1991)
    A dramatic series telling the stories of important voyages of discovery. The books describe challenges and hardships faced by those who set out to discover new lands, new ocean passages, to open up new trade routes or to win fame or fortune. The seventh book in the "Exploration" series, this tells the story of the Norwegian explorer who was the first man to reach both the South Pole, in 1911, using sledge-dog teams, and the North Pole, in 1926, in an airship.

  • The Voyages of Columbus

    Richard Humble, Richard Hook

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1991)
    Discusses the voyages of Columbus across the Atlantic, which he thought would lead to the discovery of a new route to Asia.

  • The Voyages of Vasco Da Gama

    Richard Humble, Doug Harper

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts Ltd, May 28, 1992)
    This book is part of the "Exploration Through the Ages" series which tells the stories of important voyages of discovery. The books describe challenges and hardships faced by those who set out to discover new lands, new ocean passages, to open up new trade routes or to win fame or fortune. This particular book looks at the voyages of Vasco da Gama, explaining how this Portuguese explorer made the first epoch-making sea voyage around Africa to discover the trading riches of India. The illustrations and text vividly portray the dramatic life he led, his achievements and his struggles, ending with his death in Cochin, India where he was Viceroy and Admiral of India. This book supports Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum where it focuses on history and exploration from 1450 to 1550.

  • The Voyages of Jacques Cartier

    Richard Humble

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Feb. 1, 1993)
    Portrays the life of the sixteenth-century French navigator and explorer
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  • The Voyages of Columbus

    Richard Humble

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts Ltd, June 17, 1991)
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  • The Expeditions of Amundsen

    Richard Humble, Andrew Aloof

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, April 1, 1992)
    Describes the life and expeditions of the Norwegian explorer who first reached the South Pole
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  • The Voyages of Vasco Da Gama

    Richard Humble

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Sept. 1, 1992)
    Describes the explorations and discoveries of Vasco da Gama.
    T

  • The Voyages of Captain Cook

    Richard Humble, Richard Hook

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts Ltd, Sept. 15, 1990)
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