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1) Ice station
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself... A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else... First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge...
Author
Language
English
Description
Offers a sweeping study of Daniel Boone in terms of his larger-than-life role in the early history of America, detailing his trailblazing journeys into the heart of the American wilderness and his participation in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 10
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989, ©1986
Physical Desc
[v]-xii, 175 pages : map ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"River of Swans chronicles the journey of Lt. Andre Du Pres down the Big River in search of a southwest passage across the continent. Du Pres' entourage includes the beautiful Indian, Pale Star, who jeopardizes the expedition to return to her homeland." -- Google books.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes various explorations of Antarctica, telling of Roald Amundsen, Capt. Robert Scott, Douglas Mawson, Richard Byrd, and others.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xvii, 423 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...
13) Snowbound
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this powerful biographical novel, Richard Wheeler tells the amazing tale of the American explorer and hero, John Fremont, and his attempt to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel.
Trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, Fremont must fight his way out. He battles the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. In this tale of desperate danger and fierce courage, Wheeler presents the reader...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
What happened to the world's biggest treasure? Early Spanish explorers heard a story about El Dorado. It was a lost city in the Americas, made of gold. The explorers believed it was real--and they believed they could find it! Soon the story became a legend, and the legend changed the world. But the city of El Dorado has not been found ... yet.
16) Saga America
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
c1980.
Physical Desc
xviii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Caroline House
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The cabin boy on the "Santa Maria" keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492.
Author
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers, a story of courage and adventure brings to life the rivalry between two enemies-a decorated soldier and a young aristocrat/Army officer-as they set out to find the mysterious headwaters of the Nile River.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The human story has always been one of perseverance-often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing...
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