Lives of the explorers: discoveries, disasters (and what the neighbors thought) 9780152059101, 9780544301498, 0152059105, 9780605804777, 060580477X, 9781328740915, 1328740919

"This fascinating new installment in the popular Lives of ... series of collective biographies is full of juicy tid

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English Pages 96 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm Year 2014

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Lives of the explorers: discoveries, disasters (and what the neighbors thought)
 9780152059101, 9780544301498, 0152059105, 9780605804777, 060580477X, 9781328740915, 1328740919

Table of contents :
In search of trees : Leif Ericson --
"Only the half of what I saw" : Marco Polo --
Kindness of strangers : Ibn Battuta --
Everyone likes presents : Zheng He --
"Gold is most excellent" : Christopher Columbus --
Flying pigs : Ferdinand Magellan --
The final four years : Henry Hudson --
Eat your sauerkraut : James Cook --
In love with wilderness : Daniel Boone --
Dancing by campfire : Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacajawea --
Thousand and One Nights : Richard Francis Burton --
gun or no gun? : Isabella Bird --
Body parts on the ceiling : Mary Kingsley --
The kind one : Matthew Henson --
Naming a new land after "Mommie" : Richard E. Byrd --
Up and down : Auguste and Jacques Piccard --
Blast off! : Sally Ride.

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