Download or read book The Great Explorers written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Download or read book Children s Great Explorers Encyclopedia written by Parragon Book Service Limited and published by Parragon Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Clear And Comprehensive Introduction To Great Explorers. Written By An Expert Author And Consultant Team. Fully Illustrated Throughout With Stunning Colour Photography And Clear Diagrams. Topics Include: Marco Polo'S Epic Journey, The Conquest Of The In
Download or read book Dead Reckoning written by Helen Whybrow and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few thrills as exciting as weather at its worst. We often hear on the news that the day was the hottest, coldest, wettest, or snowiest on record. Is the climate really becoming more extreme as a result of global warming? The facts are in this book. Extensively illustrated with colour photographs of some of the most extreme weather ever captured on camera, more than fifty colour maps, and tables of weather records for over three hundred U.S. cities, this book is both an entertainment and an indispensable reference. Also included are historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed: heat bursts, electrified dust storms, snow rollers, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, falls of fish and toads, ball lightning, super bolts, and other strange meteorological events. Here's the must-have book for Weather Channel and Guinness Book of World Records fans.
Download or read book 221 Great Explorers of the World written by Sahil Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magellan s World written by Stuart Waldman and published by Great Explorers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan, the man who discovered the Americas for the rulers of Spain.
Download or read book The World s Great Explorers and Explorations written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Explorers written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abridgement of the late Samuel Eliot Morison's magnum opus, The European Discovery of America, which the Journal of Southern History called "an epic work of true grandeur," and the Virginia Quarterly Review considered "a great book by a great historian," preserves the originality, scholarship, and vivid descriptions of the original volumes.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Great Explorers written by Simon Adams and published by Parragon Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a clear and comprehensive guide to intrepid adventurers and their travels. Discover details of important events, technology and world religions.
Download or read book Vasco N ez de Balboa written by Maureen Ash and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1990 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head. After the world was gone, she believed Rule could be a sanctuary for her and those she'd come to love.But she was wrong.Now Alex is in the fight of her life against the adults, who would use her, the survivors, who don't trust her, and the Changed, who would eat her alive.Welcome to Shadows, the second book in the haunting apocalyptic Ashes Trilogy: where no one is safe and humans may be the worst of the monsters.
Download or read book Henry Stanley and David Livingstone written by Susan Clinton and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the travels of Stanley and Livingstone as they unlocked many geographic secrets of Africa.
Download or read book Picture History of Great Explorers written by and published by Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers. The book begins with the ancient explorers, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, through to Magellan and Drake, and comes right up to the present day with Ranulph Fiennes. Each page puts an explorer in the context of his or her own time, with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions which were the springboards for their adventures, and the world regions which were capturing people's imagination at that time. Gillian Clements includes the reasons behind exploration, and how technology and exploration have gone hand-in-hand throughout history. She combines entertaining fact and historical information with eye-catching illustration.
Download or read book Explorers of the New World written by Carla Mooney and published by Build It Yourself. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides twenty-two step-by-step projects to help readers learn about the explorers that discovered America and their voyages.
Download or read book Great Explorers written by Jim Pipe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Explorers written by John Guy and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorers.
Download or read book World s Great Explorers written by Jack M Maxwell and published by Childrens Press. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the New World written by Carole S. Gallagher and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Italian explorer who, in the fifteenth century, became the first European to discover the West Indies islands, located below the southernmost tip of the United States, in three historic voyages sponsored by Spain's monarchy.
Download or read book Great Explorers written by Roderic Owen and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the harrowing adventures of over forty courageous pioneers such as Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, David Livingston, Robert Scott, and Neil Armstrong.
