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Ten of the Best Adventures on the Seas
Professor of Latin David West
Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Shares stories of success and failure of sea voyages throughout history, including the Norse explorer who mistakenly sailed past North America looking for Greenland, the explorer, pirate Francis Drake, and the mutiny on the Bounty.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in the Jungle
Professor of Latin David West
Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Provides an overview of explorers' jungle adventures, including Gonzalo Pizarro's search for El Dorado, Mungo Park's journey down the Niger, and Alfred Wallace's exploration of East Indies.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in the Jungle
Professor of Latin David West
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Ten exciting stories feature famous explorers and their dangerous jungle adventures. Stories include: Gonzalo Pizarros search for the city of El Dorado, Mary Kingsley's fall into a pit of stakes, Percy Fawcett and the lost city of Z, Henry Walter Bates adventure in the Amazon, and Captain Barth Blake search for Inca gold in the Amazon.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in Frozen Landscapes
Professor of Latin David West
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Ten exciting stories feature famous explorers and their struggles to survive in frigid temperatures during dangerous polar expeditions. Stories include: the last expedition of John Franklin, Salomon August Andre's attempt to reach the North Pole by hydrogen balloon, Ernest Shackletons journey to rescue his ice-locked crew, Riiser-Larsen and Amundsens crash in the Arctic, and the crash of Umberto Nobiles airship Italia. Feature boxes and maps add additional details and help readers better understand the explorer's journey and the time period in which the expedition took place.
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Ten of the Best Adventures on the Seas
Professor of Latin David West
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Ten exciting stories feature dangerous voyages of famous explorers traveling on the high seas in search of fame and fortune. Feature boxes and maps add additional details and help readers better understand the explorers journey and the time period in which the expedition took place.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in Space
Professor of Latin David West
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Readers will be amazed by ten exciting stories of miraculous survival and tragic events in the history of space exploration. Stories include: the near-fatal journey of Uri Gagarin, Neil Armstrongs first step on the moon, the breakdown of Apollo 13, the Russian Salyut 1 space station, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, fire on board the Mir space station, and the two successful flights of SpaceShipOne. Feature boxes add additional details and help readers better understand the dangers faced by the crew on these famous missions.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in New Worlds
Professor of Latin David West
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Ten exciting stories feature the hardships encountered by famous and sometimes brutal explorers in their quests to discover new lands. Stories include: Hernn Corts and the Aztec rebellion, Francisco Pizarros battle against the natives of Colombia, Lewis and Clark's expedition, David Livingstones attack by lions in Africa, Marco Polos travels in China, and Samuel de Champlains fight against the Iroquois. Feature boxes and maps add additional details and help readers better understand the explorer's journey and the time period in which the expedition took place.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in Space
Professor of Latin David West
Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Presents ten stories of adventures in outer space, including the first spacewalk, the 1981 space shuttle disaster, and dangerous mechanical failures.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in the Sky
Professor of Latin David West
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Ten exciting stories tell of the success and failures of many famous inventors and pilots in the quest for flight. Stories include: the first hot-air balloon to carry people, the Wright brothers and the first airplane, Charles Lindberghs nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, Amelia Earharts attempt at a round-the-world flight, breaking the sound barrier, and Felix Baumgartners skydive from space. Feature boxes add additional details and simple maps help readers better understand the flight paths.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in New Worlds
Professor of Latin David West
Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Provides a brief overview of explorers and their discoveries, including Marco Polo, Francisco Pizarro, and William Clark.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in Frozen Landscapes
Professor of Latin David West
Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Sept. 15, 2015)Highlights exploration efforts in the Arctic Regions, including John Franklin's lost expedition, Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expedition to map the coastline, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to reach the South Pole.
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Ten of the Best Adventures in the Sky
David West
Library Binding (Crabtree Pub Co, Oct. 15, 2015)"Ten exciting stories tell of the success and failures of many famous inventors and pilots in the quest for flight. Stories include: the first hot-air balloon to carry people, the Wright brothers and the first airplane, Charles Lindbergh's nonstop flightfrom New York City to Paris, Amelia Earhart's attempt at a round-the-world flight, breaking the sound barrier, and Felix Baumgartner's skydive from space. Feature boxes add additional details and simple maps help readers better understand the flight paths."--
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