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The Lost Colony of Roanoke
By Jean Fritz, Hudson Talbott. 2004
Chronicles the founding of an English settlement on Roanoke Island in 1585 and the birth of its first child, Virginia…
Dare. Describes the early settlers' hardships including starvation and hostile natives and relates the colony's mysterious disappearance over the next three years. For grades 4-7. 2004The road to there: mapmakers and their stories
By Val Ross. 2003
Biographies of cartographers seeking to map the world from ancient times to the invention of aerial photography, among them China's…
Cheng Ho, Belgium's Gerard Mercator, and America's explorers Lewis and Clark. Includes tales of forgery, undersea adventure, and secret maps. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2003York's adventures with Lewis and Clark: an African-American's part in the great expedition
By Rhoda Blumberg. 2004
Relates the experiences of the slave who journeyed west with the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Explains York's importance…
to the explorers and his role in establishing cordial relations with Native Americans. Companion to the author's The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark (DB 29633). For grades 5-8. 2004Sea clocks: the story of longitude
By Louise Borden, Erik Blegvad. 2004
Explains in free verse how eighteenth-century Englishman John Harrison, a village clockmaker, invented the chronometer that enabled sea captains to…
avoid veering off course on their long voyages. For grades 2-4. 2004Touching the sky: the flying adventures of Wilbur and Orville Wright
By Louise Borden, Peter M. Fiore, Trish Marx. 2003
Biographies of the Wright brothers and a description of their extraordinary achievements, mostly two events of September 1909. As Wilbur…
Wright dazzled New Yorkers with a spectacular flying demonstration, Orville set amazing flight records at an exhibition in Germany. Includes an aviation timeline. For grades 2-4. 2003Women of adventure (Profiles)
By Jacqueline A Kolosov, Jacqueline McLean. 2003
Profiles seven courageous women of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes Mary Kingsley, a Victorian woman who traveled alone in…
Africa; Alexandra David-Neel, who risked prison to explore remote regions of Tibet; and Marguerite Baker Harrison, a journalist turned spy, who went on missions to Germany and Russia. For grades 6-9. 2003Raising La Belle (Professor Wigglestix and the Weather Ser.)
By Mark Mitchell. 2002
Account of the 1995-1996 discovery and excavation of the sunken La Belle, the prized ship of seventeeth-century French explorer Robert…
Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, off the Texas coast. Includes historical information on Fort St. Louis, a French settlement in Texas founded by La Salle and destroyed by massacre in 1688. For grades 5-8. 200220,000 leagues under the sea (Books of wonder)
By Jules Verne, Leo and Diane Dillon. 2000
Classic of nineteenth-century speculative fiction relates the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail beneath…
the world's oceans as prisoners of the fabulous electric submarine Nautilus under the command of the deranged Captain Nemo. 1869Magnificent voyage: an American adventurer on Captain James Cook's final expedition
By Laurie Lawlor. 2002
An account of English explorer James Cook's last voyage--begun in 1776 to search for the Northwest Passage--that led to the…
discovery of the Hawaiian Islands and Cook's grisly murder. Based on the journals of John Ledyard, a twenty-four-year-old American marine who joined the trip. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2002As far as the eye can reach: Lewis and Clark's westward quest (Landmark Bks.)
By Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. 2003
An account of the 1804-1806 journey by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark across the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Territory--an…
unexplored wilderness west of the Mississippi River--to the Pacific Ocean. Describes the expedition's adventures and discoveries. For grades 4-7. 2003Piracy & plunder: a murderous business (Look-Inside Ser.)
By Milton Meltzer, Dawn Bentley, Robert Greisen. 2001
A history of piracy from ancient times to the modern age. Discusses how and why pirates became thieves and killers,…
the lives they led on land and sea, the harm they did, and the fates they suffered. Includes Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, and Sir Henry Morgan. For grades 5-8. 2001The kids' winter handbook (Family Fun)
By Heather Collins, Jane Drake, Ann Love. 2001
Outdoor and indoor activities to celebrate winter. Covers weather forecasting, snow sports, crafts projects (most call for inexpensive, easy-to-find materials),…
games, fireside stories, and recipes. Parental involvement is encouraged. For grades 3-6. 2001Beyond the sea of ice: the voyages of Henry Hudson (Great explorers book #Vol. 1)
By Joan E Goodman, Joan Goodman, Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Fernando Rangel. 1999
Describes English explorer Henry Hudson's four voyages between 1607 and 1611 searching for a passage to the Orient through North…
America. Explains that he eventually ended up on the river that bears his name, at what is now New York City. For grades 4-7. 1999Mummies of the pharaohs: exploring the Valley of the Kings
By Melvin Berger. 2001
Introduces some of the rulers of ancient Egypt and their thousands-of-years-old burial places. Explains how archaeologist Howard Carter found the…
tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. Discusses the history of the site and other pharaohs discovered there. For grades 4-7. 2001. For grades 4-7. 2001Shipwreck at the bottom of the world: the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
By Jennifer Armstrong. 1998
An account of the survival of a twenty-eight man crew whose ship for a 1914 expedition to Antarctica was marooned…
in pack ice. Explains the daily difficulties the men faced during their nine-month ordeal and Captain Ernest Shackleton's bravery to effect their rescue. For grades 5-8A long and uncertain journey: the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama (Great explorers book)
By Joan E Goodman, Joan Goodman, Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Tom McNeely. 2001
Career ideas for kids who like adventure (Career Ideas for Kids Ser.Career Ideas for Kids)
By Diane Lindsey Reeves, Nancy Heubeck, Nancy Bond. 2001
Career ideas on choosing a profession that offers both excitement and a physical challenge. Discusses becoming a pilot, a detective,…
a firefighter, a ranch hand, and a paramedic. Suggests additional resources and ways of practicing job skills. For grades 5-8. 2001The adventures of Sojourner: the mission to Mars that thrilled the world
By Susi Trautmann Wunsch, Susi Wunsch, Jpl Staff. 1998
Describes the development of the microrover called Sojourner that would become the first mobile, remote control explorer of another planet.…
Tells the story of the Mars Pathfinder mission that landed on July 4, 1997, and the successful transmissions back to Earth. For grades 4-7In search of the Grand Canyon: Down the Colorado with John Wesley Powell (A Redfeather book)
By Mary Ann Fraser. 1995
Fraser relates how Major John Wesley Powell and a crew of nine men left the Wyoming Territory to explore the…
Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1869. She uses Powell's journals to depict the dangers and excitement of the three-month journey, in which several men and two boats were lost. For grades 3-6The silver treasure: myths and legends of the world (Myths and Legends of the World Ser.)
By Geraldine McCaughrean, Bee Willey. 1997
A multicultural anthology retelling twenty-three folktales. Contains stories from Bolivia, Togo, Russia, India, Egypt, Alaska, and other parts of the…
globe. Companion to The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World (DB 46791). For grades 4-7