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000173
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India, Navneet Publications (India) Ltd., 1994.
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32pWhite Spine
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Describes briefly how early explorers find their way, who sailed first around the world and how polar explorers survived, among other questions.
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Who were the first explorers?
How did early explorers find their way?
How far did the Vikings travel?
Who were the first Arab explorers?
Who first made contact with China?
When was the Great Age of exploration?
Who discovered America?
Who first sailed around the world?
Who were the Conquistadors?
Who found out about Austarlia?
Who explored Africa?
How were polar regions explored?
How is the sea explored?
How is space explored?
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8124305560 Pb.
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018939
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Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society, 2013.
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128pBlack Spine
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National Geographic
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Featuring legendary photography and unforgettable storytelling, National Geographic showcases the quest for knowledge and adventure that has driven the Society mission for well over a century.
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Land, sea, sky
Why explore
Shoes
Charting the globe
Maps
Darwin's voyage of discovery
Journals
Expanding the limits
The legacy continues
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019857
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Mumbai, Euro Books, 2009.
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68pOrange Spine
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The book of
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Provides answers to all your questions on discoveries. Includes games and riddles.
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Discoveries -
Fire
The wheel
Metals
Glass
Textiles and clothing
Farming
The Prehistoric village
Breeding and fishing
Numbers
The measurement of time
Clocks and watches
Writing
Houses
The past
Quiz
Exploration -
Astronomy
Navigation
Roads
Means of transport
The Silk Route
Exploring the Sahara
The discovery of America
The route to India
Circling the world
The great explprers
The Amazon river
The African jungle
Exploring Australia
The race to the poles
Man on the moon
Quiz
Index
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9788128623172 Hb.
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| 018701 | 609/WOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020880
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New York, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2010.
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96pGreen Spine
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A child's introduction to
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An introduction to geography including facts and figures about the people, places, plants, and animals that inhabit different parts of the world.
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Where am I?
In the beginning
Excuse me, I think we're floating!
Gone exploring
Living on a sphere
Where are we?
Map stories
How to read a map
The ups and downs
Going with the flow
Different spaces, different places
It's getting crowded in here
Who are we?
Welcome to the world
The continents
North America
The United States of America
Eastern United States
Central United States
Western United States
Canada
Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
South America
Northern South America and Brazil
Southern South America
Europe
United Kingdom and Ireland
Northern Europe &​ Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Southern Europe
Asia
Russia and Central Asia
The Middle East
South Asia
Southeast Asia
East Asia
Africa
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Central and Southern Africa
Australia
Oceania
Antarctica and the Arctic regions
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9781579128326 Hb.
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004619
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2007.
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40pRed Spine
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Explore the world of explorers with the help of fascinating questions, such as why the Vikings travelled so far, and who sent Stanley to find Livingstone.
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Ancient empires
The mysterious East
Journeys of teh Vikings
The Islamic world
Across Asia
The African coastline
Atlantic crossings
The longest journey
South Seas
Northern passagesExploring North America
Into Africa
Amazon and Andes
Crossing Australia
The world's coldest places
Underworlds
Airborne Explorers
Space exploration
Index and answers
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9780753408001 Hb.
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020627
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Peachtree city, Gallopade International, 2015.
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24pRed spine
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Common core lessons and activities
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The Explorers Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.
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Age of Exploration: Reading Informational Text
Reasons for Exploration: Reading Informational Text GO4
Means of Discovery: Reading Informational Text
Obstacles and Rewards: Classifying Information GO5
Prince Henry the Navigator: Reading Informational TextPortuguese Explorers: Reading Informational Text GO11
Columbus Discovery: Reading Informational Text
An Early Map: Primary Source Analysis
The New World: Primary Source Analysis
Tainos: Reading Informational Text
The Age of Exploration: Graphic Organizer G
More Spanish Explorers: Reading Informational Text G
Conquistadors: Reading Informational Text GO1
English Explorers: Reading Informational Text
French Explorers: Reading Informational Text
Explorer Quotations: Point of View G
Exploring the Americas: Chronological Events GO12
Regions of Exploration: Map Activity
Explorer s Vocabulary: Vocabulary G
Common Core State Standards Correlations
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9780635106179 Pb.
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| 019339 | 910.9/MAR | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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019127
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Explorers
/ Arlon, Penelope; Gordon-Harris, Tory
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2015
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New York, Scholastic, 2015.
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80pGreen and Grey spine
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Scholastic discover more
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Anyone can be an explorer. But every explorer must be brave and determined. Meet the men and women who have pushed themselves to the limit
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Why explore?
Off we go!
Where am I?
Mount Mabu (Mozambique) - unexplored forest found on Google Earth
Hall of fame - Explorers
Bold journeys
Voyages of discovery
Famous ancient explorers
The adventures of Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang) - Chinese explorer - Silk Route
Vikings
Marco Polo - Chinese explorer - Silk Route
The travels of Ibn Battuta - Moroccan explorer
Race to the far East - Exploration in the 1400s - Sea exploration
Exploring the Americas - Christopher Columbus, 1492
The Conquistadors - Spanish explorers
Hot chocolate - The Conquistadors - Hernando Cortes, Spanish explorer
Around the world - Ferdinand Magellan - Sea exploration
A sailor's life - Sea exploration
The adventures of Jeanne Baret - French explorer - Female explorer
Captain Cook - 1700s
Lewis and Clark- 1800s
Sacagawea - Native American explorer
River adventures - 1800s
Mary Kingsley - English explorer, Women
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9789351038320 Pb.
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009303
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Great Britain, Angus Books Ltd., 2004.
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32pRed Spine
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Atlas in the Round Series
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A dynamic introduction to the various ages of discovery and the heroic figures who led the way. Discover the great adventurers who challenged the unknown in search of wealth and glory.
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Great general and explorer
Pioneering seafarer
Passage to India
The travels of Marco Polo
A buccaneer's life
On top of the world
The New World
Crossing the new continent
Northern Territory
Hernan Cortes, conqueror of Mexico
Uncharted waters
Conqueror of the Incas
Descending the Amazon
High peaks of the Andes
Ibn Batuta
The source of the Nile
Africa, from coast to coast
A woman in West Africa
Continent in the south
The red country
The pioneering Dutch
Going west
Arctic waters
The race to the North Pole
Shackleton and the SOuth Pole
Centre of the southern ice
First man in space
Man on the Moon
Index
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1904594328 Hb.
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| 009702 | 910.9/WAT | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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001131
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World Book Inc., 1985.
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168pBrown Spine
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Childcraft
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Learn about the stories of how people first spread across the world, the first civilizations, the new inventions and discoveries of the modern world etc.
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When we began
The early civilizations
The worlds of Ancient Greece and Rome
The middle ages
The spread of culture
The age of change
Today's events, tomorrow's history
Index
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0716660075 Hb.
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| 003743 | 030/CHI | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | Reference |
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018794
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New York, Scholastic Entertainment Inc., 2002.
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49min.Blue Spine
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Horrible Histories
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The series is based around the adventures of Stitch Fleischer and Mo Burrows, two everyday kids who are transported to various historical eras with the help of a time portal. In each episode, their historical adventures help teach them a lesson or solve a problem in their everyday lives, often involving bully Darren Dongle. They explain the historical details, and clarify popular misconceptions.
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Extraordinary explorers
Perilous plague
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1 VCD.
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019444
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New York, Time, 2009.
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122pBlack Spine
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Relates the fascinating tales behind history's greatest discoveries: the prehistoric painted caves of France, the undersea tomb of the Titanic, the sources of the Nile, the tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamen, the lost city of Machu Picchu, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the continental drift.
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The shock of revelation
The geography of discovery
Exploring the past
Exploring Planet Earth
Exploring life on Earth
Exploring the solar system
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7099210620 Pb.
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020726
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Bath, Parragon Publishing, 2011.
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224pYellow spine
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Children's encyclopedia
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A clear and comprehensive introduction to great explorers. Written by an expert author and consultant team. Fully illustrated throughout with stunning colour photography and clear diagrams. Topics include: Marco Polo's epic journey, the conquest of the Inca empire, Captain Cook and his ship the Endeavour, and the race to the North Pole.
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9781445428239 Hb.
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009826
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Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions, 1995.
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xvi, 224pBlue spine
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Wordsworth Classics
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A journey up the river in the Belgian Congo is also a journey into the darkest part of a man's soul.
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9781853262401 Pb.
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004856
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USA, 2004.
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108pSea Green Spine
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Women Explorers
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IN 1893, Mary Kingsley, a young British woman set sail to her dream destination :West Africa. She traveled between the Niger and Congo rivers, became the first woman to climb Mount Cameroon, and brought a new perspective to the Victorian view of "the dark continent".
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A new destination
Life behind the shutters
A feeling of responsibility
Destination : Africa
At home in a foreign land
Navigating the Ogooue river
Reaching the Rembwe
The final journey
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Furthur reading
Index
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0791077144 Hb.
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ID:
017707
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London, A & C Black Publishers, 1994.
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29pBlue Spine
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Going places
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This book looks at why we make journeys, how we travel and how we find the way. Find out how to use a map and what it's like to go on a well planned journey.
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Going on a journey
Why go on a journey?
How do you get there?
Planning a journey
Finding the way
Finding places
Town and country journeys
Green journeys
Explorers
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0713637625 Hb.
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011121
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London, Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2009.
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104pMulti-colour Spine
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Incredible tales of intrepid explorers who trekked to the icy Poles, crossed scorching deserts, braved crocodile-infested rivers, and sailed all the way around the world for the very first time.
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Early exploration -
Ancient adventures
Viking voyages
The travels of Marco Polo
Ibn Battuta's world tour
Opening up the world -
Zheng He goes west
Around Africa
Christopher Columbus: the truth
The conquering conquistadors
Around the world in 1,080 days
Science and discovery -
The travels of Captain Cook
Humboldt's jungle journey
Lewis and Clark's American adventure
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Mary Kingsley in Africa
Across Australia
Final frontiers -
Antarctic adventures
Arctic adventures
The deepest depths
More to explore
Timeline of exploration
Who's who
Glossary
Index
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9780746098455 Pb.
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New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
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48pBlue Spine
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A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, China, Egypt, and Sicily.
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9780374377540 Hb.
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003744
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Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society, 2007.
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64pPale Blue Spine
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Describes how the discoveries made by the Europeans around the time of Columbus changed the world. Very informative account of the age of exploration, and the major explorers of the world. Beautifully illustrated, the author has won several awards for books of non-fiction.
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Why was there an age of exploration?
The explorers
How the explorers changed the world
Conclusion
Place-finder map
Biographical dictionary
Glossary
Sources and web sites
Index
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9780792269786 Hb.
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