| Description |
288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Extraordinary people |
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Extraordinary people.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-271) and index. |
| Contents |
Hercules -- Odysseus -- Jason -- Gilgamesh -- Alexander the Great -- Pytheas -- Hoei-shin -- Brendan the Navigator -- Leif Eriksson and the Vikings -- Marco Polo -- John Sebastian Cabot and Sebastian Cabot -- Christopher Columbus -- Amerigo Vespucci -- Juan Ponce de Leon -- Vasco da Gama -- Vasco Nunez de Balboa -- Francisco Pizarro -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Hernan Cortes -- Giovanni da Verrazzano -- Cabeza de Vaca -- Jacques Cartier -- Hernando de Soto -- Francisco de Orellana -- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado -- Sir Francis Drake -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Samuel de Champlain -- Henry Hudson -- Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle -- Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet -- Vitus Jonassen Bering -- Captain James Cook -- Daniel Boone -- Sir Alexander Mackenzie -- The Franciscan friars -- William Clark and Meriwether Lewis -- Sacagawea -- Davy Crockett -- Sir John Franklin- - Hamilton Hume -- Charles Wilkes -- Jim Beckwourth -- Joe Walker -- Jedediah Strong Smith -- Jim Bridger -- Christopher "Kit" Carson -- John Charles Fremont -- Dr. David Livingstone -- Sir Richard Burton -- Robert Edwin Peary -- Matthew Henson -- Wilber and Orville Wright -- Roald Amundsen -- Sir Ernest Shackleton -- George Mallory and Andrew Irvine -- Admiral Richard E. Byrd -- Ormer Locklear -- Amelia Earhart -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Jacqueline Cochran -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Sir Edmund Hillary -- John H. Glenn, Jr. -- Chuck Yeager -- Dr. Robert Ballard -- Shannon Lucid -- Balloonists -- Christa McAuliffe -- Sally Ride -- Eileen Collins -- Mae Jemison. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.7 13.0 54557. |
| Subject |
Explorers -- Juvenile literature.
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Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature.
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Explorers.
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Adventure and adventurers.
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| ISBN |
0516216937 |
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