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Author : Chris Judge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 1849394016
When a famous explorer goes missing in the North Pole, his son, Tom, decides he must find him. And so a daring adventure begins across the treacherous icy terrain of the North Pole. Will Tom be able overcome the many challenges ahead and find his father?
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500774311
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.
Author : Stephen Feinstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1598451022
"Examines the life of Captain James Cook, a British explorer and scientist, including his early life, his many Pacific voyages, and his death and legacy"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007368747
Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life.
Author : Tim Jeal
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571265640
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
Author : Asiapac Editorial
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812299321
Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are all familiar names from the Age of Exploration (1400–1550). Columbus is known for discovering America; Vasco da Gama is the first European to sail to India; and Magellan is believed to have completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. Such common-sense knowledge has met a serious challenge with new findings related to the great Chinese navigator and explorer Cheng Ho (1371–1435). Over a span of 28 years from 1405 to 1433, he directed seven large-scale voyages to the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and left his mark in over 30 countries in Southeast Asia, West Asia and East Africa. Historians have even suggested that Cheng Ho and his massive fleet could have made their way to America and Australia. How much do you know about Cheng Ho and the voyages he commanded? When and how did these voyages take place? What influences have these historic voyages exerted on the places Cheng Ho had set his feet on? In what aspects is Cheng Ho different from the European explorers? Check out the Ambassador of Peace in this book!
Author : Helen Whybrow
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393326535
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.
Author : Harold Horwood
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385674355
This is the story of the greatest Canadian ice captain who ever lived--the greatest, by general consent, of any nationality in this century. Robert Bartlett took ships to the north coast of Ellesmere Island, sledged to within 150 miles of the North Pole, made twenty-two voyages into the Canadian Arctic, and six to other parts of the Arctic, yet is almost wholly unknown in Canada. Besides piloting some of the most famous exploring voyages of all time--those of Robert E. Peary and Vilhajalmur Stefansson--Bartlett made four arctic voyages for the American Government and sixteen expeditions of his own which produced, in the period between the world wars, an immense wealth of scientific knowledge. He was the first arctic explorer to place science ahead of exploration. Harold Harwood worked from the original manuscripts and ships' logs to tell the life-story of this remarkable man. Bartlett was a colourful, often controversial character, a man whose extraordinary courage and tenacity were of heroic proportions.
Author : Simon Nasht
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781616087173
In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history--no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel cameraman in the early 1900s, as well as a reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, scientist, and adventurer, capturing in his lens war and famine, cheating death repeatedly, meeting world leaders like Lenin and Stalin, and circling the globe on a zeppelin. Apprenticing with the greats of polar exploration, including Shackleton in the Antarctic, Wilkins recognized the importance of new technologies such as the airplane and submarine. He helped map the Canadian Arctic and plumbed the ocean depths from the icecap. A pioneer in the truest sense of the word, he became the first man to fly across the North Pole, which won him a knighthood; the first to fly to the Antarctic and discover land there by airpla≠ and the first to take a submarine under the Arctic ice. Grasping the link between the poles and changing global weather, Wilkins was a visionary in weather forecasting and the study of global warming. A true hero of the earth, he changed the way we look at our world.
Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : America
ISBN : 9780195042221
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.
Author : Jeff Corwin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101184912
This is the second book in Jeff Corwin's young middle-grade fiction series, which shows kids that no matter where you live, you can have fun discovering the plants, animals, and natural life around you.
Author : Riccardo Francaviglia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Children's atlases
ISBN : 8854412813
Since the beginning of time, man has felt the need to travel and explore more of the world around him. Some of these expeditions have become fundamental stages in the history of humankind. Little is known, however, of what led certain courageous men to leave, set sail or join wandering caravans, challenging the unknown to go where no one else had ever dared. And little is known about their human journeys, the difficulties they faced in their travels and how this changed their lives. This book tells us of the courage of some exceptional men and women, their success and their fears, of the paths they took and their legacy. To help us along these extraordinary events, the book is full of illustrations, captions and in-depth analyses giving us an original point of view of these stories of explorations. AGES: 8 plus AUTHOR: Riccardo Francaviglia is the author and illustrator of books for young people living and working in Catania. In addition to publishing, his illustrations are featured in stamps, posters, calendars and board games. He holds courses in schools ranging from wooden toy construction to the design and construction of illustrated books. He has won numerous awards for childhood literature including "Butterfly Wings Award " and " Stephan Zavrel Award. "
Author : DUANE THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312793279
Author : Carol Greene
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0516042041
A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.
Author : Shawn Pryor
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781669061762
Mammoth Cave, a National Park in Brownsville, Kentucky, is the world's largest cavern with more than 400 miles of cavern space. The first to explore the cave was an enslaved Black man, Stephen Bishop. With bravery and a curious mind, Bishop became a popular tour guide and mapped out the extensive caverns, all while remaining enslaved. Learn about this respected explorer's work in this inspiring graphic novel.