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Author Snowden, Maxine, author

Title Polar explorers for kids : historic expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with 21 activities / Maxine Snowden.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, [2004]
copyright 2004
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 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 919.8 SNO    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 150 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm.
Summary Describes the travels and adventures of Arctic and Antarctic explorers throughout history, from Eric the Red in 981 or 982 to Gretel Ehrlich in 2000.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.
Contents Arctic: Arctic exploration time line -- Erik the Red reaches Greenland -- John Davis dances with Inuit and explores the Davis Straits and Labrador -- Henry Hudson ventures Northwest and Northeast in search of a passage -- William Parry explores Lancaster sound and beyond -- John Franklin leads Arctic exploration's biggest disaster -- Fridtjof Nansen travels " farthest north" and Roald Amundsen discovers the Northwest passage -- Robert Peary and Fredrick Cook race to the North Pole -- Gretel Ehrlich explores Greenland's nature and its native peoples -- Antarctic: Antarctic exploration time line -- Captain James Cook's three voyages to Antarctica's edge -- James Clark Ross explores Antarctica by ship -- Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen race to the South Pole -- Ernest Shackleton attempts to cross Antarctica -- Admiral Richard E. Byrd is first to fly over the South Pole -- Scientist Bill Green studies Antarctic Lakes.
Subject Explorers -- Polar regions -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature.
Polar regions -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.
Explorers -- Polar regions.
Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration.
ISBN 1556525001
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