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  • Juan Ponce de Leon: And His Lands of Discovery

    John Davenport, William H Goetzmann

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Publications, Jan. 1, 2006)
    Believing that the Fountain of Youth could be found in the New World, Ponce de Leon explored the coast of a land that he would call Florida. He also had explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico, long before setting foot in Florida.
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  • Apollo to the Moon

    Gregory P. Kennedy

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Jan. 1, 1992)
    A summary of NASA's Apollo project that put the first man on the moon

  • LA Salle and the Explorers of the Mississippi

    Tony Coulter

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 1991)
    A history of the exploration of the Mississippi River, discussing the men who accomplished it
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  • Christopher Columbus and the First Voyages to the New World

    Stephen C. Dodge

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Oct. 1, 1990)
    Examines the life and times of Christopher Columbus and describes his voyage to the New World

  • Vasco Da Gama: And the Sea Route to India

    Rachel A Koestler-Grack, William H Goetzmann

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Publications, Jan. 1, 2006)
    A Portuguese navigator whose initial voyage to India opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
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  • The Explorers of the Undersea World

    Richard Gaines

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 1993)
    Surveys the history of undersea exploration

  • Lewis and Clark and the Route to the Pacific

    Seamus Cavan

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Aug. 1, 1991)
    An account of the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition which explored the unknown Louisiana Purchase territory and the Pacific Northwest

  • Zebulon Pike and the Explorers of the American Southwest

    Jared Stallones

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Pub, Aug. 1, 1991)
    A biography of the Army officer and explorer who discovered, among other places in the West and Southwest, the great Rocky Mountain peak in Colorado which bears his name

  • Probing Deep Space

    Terrance Dolan

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 1993)
    Chronicles humankind's perpetual quest to understand the universe by introducing some of the famous scientists throughout history who spent their lives probing the mysteries of the cosmos, including Copernicus, Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking.

  • Underwater Dive

    Antony Jensen, Stephen Bolt, Paul Johnson

    Paperback (HarperCollins Publishers, Aug. 14, 1989)
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  • The Viking Explorers

    Rebecca Stefoff

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 1993)
    Tells how Viking explorers such as Eric the Red, Leif Ericsson, and Bjarni Herjolfsson used their expert shipbuiling abilities to become the first Europeans to reach the New World.

  • Ferdinand Magellan: And the Quest to Circle the Globe

    Samuel Willard Crompton, William H. Goetzmann

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub (Library), Jan. 1, 2006)
    Magellan set out in 1519 with five ships to find a passage through the Americas. Such a passage, if it existed, would allow Spanish ships to follow a westward route to the East Indies. After months of fruitless searching, Magellan eventually found a narrow, dangerous sea passage at the bottom of South America--now called the Strait of Magellan. In 1522, a lone ship sailed into the harbor at Seville, making its crew the first men to sail completely around the world.
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