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English for Spanish speakers: the complete course I; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1998
Presents a beginning language learning program designed to teach the Spanish-speaking listener English in progressive steps. 2011, c1998. El programa…
linguístico de Pimsleur es un sistema integrado que le proporciona a usted inmersión en el idioma, lo anima a escuchar, a entender y a hacer uso del idioma, todo al mismo tiempo.Egyptian Arabic: the complete course I; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2001
Egyptian Arabic: the complete course I; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2001
Egyptian Arabic: The short course (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2001
English for Spanish speakers: The short course (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2000
English for Spanish speakers: the complete course II; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1999
Presents a language learning program designed to teach the listener English in progressive steps. 2011, c1999. El programa linguístico de…
Pimsleur es un sistema integrado que le proporciona a usted inmersión en el idioma, lo anima a escuchar, a entender y a hacer uso del idioma, todo al mismo tiempo.English for Brazilian Portuguese speakers: The short course (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2001
English for Mandarin Chinese speakers: The short course (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1999
English for Cantonese Chinese speakers: The short course (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2000
Explorers who made it-- or died trying
By Frieda Wishinsky, Bill Dickson. 2011
Would you climb a mountain just because it was there, sail in unknown, monster-infested seas, or freeze your toes off…
just to plant a flag on a slab of ice? Many people have – some for the sake of science and curiosity, others in search of fame and fortune. But what made these explorers risk like and limb? Were they fearless or foolish – or both? Grades 3-6. c2011.First across the continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie
By Barry M Gough. 1997
Biography of the explorer Alexander Mackenzie, the first man to cross North America from the western hub of interior trade,…
Lake Athabasca, to the Pacific Ocean. Gough describes how Mackenzie came to North America in search of opportunity, and having achieved success in the fur trade, began journeying to the furthest reaches of the north and west. 1997.Fascinating facts: about the earth, space, wild animals, and people
By Kingfisher Larousse Chambers Staff. 1999
Fatu-Hiva: back to nature
By Thor Heyerdahl. 1974
Sub-titled Back to Nature, this is an account of the author's attempts as a young man to find out what…
it is like to live on a lonely island in the ways of primitive man. 1974.Fatal passage: the untold story of John Rae, the Arctic adventurer who discovered the fate of Franklin
By Kenneth McGoogan. 2001
In 1854, John Rae, a Scottish immigrant to Canada, led a small expedition across the Boothia Peninsula to map the…
missing link in the Northwest Passage. This accomplishment, along with his other geographical contributions, should have earned him glory. Instead, Rae faded from the record. In this book, the author aims to restore Rae's name to the historical record as one of the heroes of Arctic exploration. 2001.David Thompson (The Canadians)
By James K Smith. 1975
Young David Thompson trapped for the Hudson's Bay Company during the late 1700s. In 1789, he met Philip Turnor who…
had been hired to map a route to Athabasca. Turnor taught him mathematics and astronomy, thus starting Thompson on his way to being an explorer, surveyor and map maker. Grades 5-8. 1975.David Livingstone (Sutton Pocket Biographies Ser.)
By C. S Nicholls. 1998
Livingstone has been acclaimed a hero for his discovery of the Victoria Falls and he mapped out much of central…
Africa's waterways. In 1871 Henry Stanley went to Africa to find Livingstone leading to one of the most famous meetings in exploration history. This text provides an account of Livingstone's life, from his humble beginnings in Scotland, and his struggle to gain qualifications, to his employment with the London Missionary Society and his search for the source of the Nile. 1998.Dolnick retells the story of Powell, an ambitious, one-armed Civil War vet who, along with nine other men who possessed…
no whitewater experience, braved the treacherous Colorado River from Wyoming Territory to Arizona. Only six of them survived the trip. 2001.