Explore! : : the Most Dangerous Journeys of all Time
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Call Number: Y 910.922 Ke, Kids Book / Nonfiction / History / General / Kespert, Deborah
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Includes index.
Great explorers: where and when -- Race to the South Pole: Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen -- Voyage to new worlds: Christopher Columbus -- Across the sea of darkness: Vasco da Gama -- Round-the-world challenge: Ferdinand Magellan -- Into the Pacific: Abel Tasman -- Charting the South Seas: James Cook -- An Asian adventure: Marco Polo -- Gold rush in Florida: Hernando de Soto -- Taming the wild west: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- Coast to coast - Secret Africa: David Livingstone -- Surviving in the African jungle: Mary Kingsley -- The highest mountain: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay -- Alone on top of the world: Reinhold Messner -- Adventures in the desert: Gertrude Bell -- In search of ancient kingdoms: Wilfred Thesiger -- Pioneer of the skies: Amelia Earhart -- The first into space: Yuri Gargarin -- Setting foot on the moon: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -- To the ocean depths: Jacques-Yves Cousteau -- Extreme challenges: Ranulph Fiennes -- Extreme Earth.
Describes dangerous journeys made by explorers and adventurers and some of the tricks that help one survive in extreme environments.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 96 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780500650134
0500650136
SUBJECTS
Explorers -- History.
Discoveries in geography.
Survival.