"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
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.