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How did early explorers navigate? Who was the first human to reach outer space? When did the first person reach the North Pole? Kids can find the answers to these questions and many more in this easy-to-use family reference book! Packed with important facts, The Look-It-Up Book of Explorers features 40 concise, exciting accounts of explorers from around the world and throughout time, from the Vikings to the astronauts! Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps, this book makes it easy for kids to explore!
Praise for As Far as the Eye Can Reach:
“Kimmel’s work is a well written, lively account for young readers.”
—Kirkus Reviews


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Ages 8 to 14 years.This exciting book tells the story of the relentless and at times tyrannical explorer Vasco da Gama who helped Portugal search for a trade route to the lucrative spice trade of the Far East. Discover his role in the development of Portuguese spice plantations in India and New World colonies, and his involvement in the slave trade of Africa. ... Read more

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A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers, this book profiles both ancient and recent explorers, including Alexander the Great, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Lewis and Clark, Wilfred Thesiger, and Yuri Gagarin. Combining entertaining fact and historical information with eye-catching illustration, author Gillian Clements places each explorer in the context of his or her own time with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions and technologies which were the springboards for their adventures, and the destinations that captured the world’s imagination at that time. ... Read more

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Great Explorers Very Colorful and Entertaining
The Picture History of Great Explorers offers very colorful and engaging pictures as it guides the reader through a pictorial history of explorers from the earliest explorers who entered America to the exploration of space. Maps provide the reader with visual images of the actual routes taken by these brave and adventurous men as their stories are shared in an engaging and knowledgeable format. Very helpful for teachers wishing to share the excitement of exploration with their students. Includes many of the explorers traditionally studied as well as some less-known ones.

great book, must have
very big coverage, goes beyound a well-known names. Also great out-of-print the picture history of the great inventors ... Read more

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Ages 8 to 14 years.This exciting new book outlines how Marquette and Jolliet laid the groundwork for further French colonisation of the New World, which led to the claiming of the huge territory of Louisiana. ... Read more

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Describes the life and travels of Jacques Cartier, the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China. ... Read more

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Explorer Series
This book, and all the others in this series areperfect complements to any American History textbook. It gives the details that students want to know. It is written in an engaging and interesting style without being too difficult. I am in the process of collecting them all! ... Read more

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Research Perfect!
I was doing a report and Everest and Hillary and this book was perfect! If you wanna know about Edmund Hillary, a hero, then read this book! ... Read more

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Nice human angle
This book gave me an appreciation for the personalities of the key players in the expedition.For instance, we learn that Sacagawea "wept profusely" when she met her brother, and showed grit and courage after a boat wreck while the men on board panicked.I think the human side is what makes history engaging and interesting--better than dry facts.I appreciated quotes from the journals of Lewis and Clark.

Nice questions but personalities rather than discoveries
A nice little book for the student who asks questions, by identifying unanswered ones for investigating.There is, however, an emphasis on personalities rather than the events and discoveries.A map of the expedition, sites and dates would have been helpful too. ... Read more

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for shame
This is surely the most innaccurate and poorly researched children's "history" book on the market.There are glaring errors on every single page.It will be a shame if any young readers base their knowledge of John Smith upon this flawed account. For accurate scholarship by serious scholars who have studied John Smith in depth, see (among others) The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith by Philip Barbour, The American Dream of Captain John Smith and Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith, both by J. A. Leo Lemay, and of course all the writings of John Smith himself. ... Read more

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The story of one of England's greatest maritime heroes tells how Sir Francis Drake became the first English explorer to circumnavigate the globe and how he saved Britain from the Spanish Armada. ... Read more

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Roger King, Explorers of New Worlds:Jacques Cousteau and t
This is one of a series of some twenty books, ranging from Marco Polo to the Apollo Astronauts (see p. 2).It contains more science than other juvenile biographies of Cousteau that I have examined, including useful discussions of the effects of water pressure on divers (at pp. 16-18) and of "rapture of the deep" (at p. 20).Another positive feature is the bolding of occasional pertinent vocabulary words, which are defined in a glossary in the back of the volume (see pp. 60-61).The book offers suggestions for further reading (at p. 62), although these are of only moderate use.The volume is written in a comprehendible, although slightly "slangy" (see "earned a bad rap" at p. 29), style, and is reasonably well illustrated with pictures of Cousteau and his researchers.

King's biography does cover Cousteau's prickly relationship with his sons (at p. 53) and his remarriage (at p. 57), although it does not mention the previous affair with his second wife, his brother Philippe's collaboration with the Axis during World War II, or indeed the stone-throwing affair of Jacques' youth, which led to expulsion from school.The mistakes which do occur are fairly minor.Cousteau met his first wife, Simone at a party in Paris, not in Toulon (see p. 14), according to both Richard Munson and Axel Madsen's more thorough biographies.King's discussion of the bathyscaphe (at p. 27) ignores the earlier bathysphere, which had also been used to plumb the depths.Nor does there seem to be any reason to have omitted 19th century vessels when speaking of times "when mariners did not have the sophisticated navigation equipment that sailors use today" (see p. 45).Finally, to say that all the silver, gold and gems found on Silver Bank had been "plundered" (at p. 46) is to ignore Spain's extensive New World mining operations and distort the historical record.
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