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Somerville, Candlewick Press, 2011.
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| Description |
91pPale green and white spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Acclaimed illustrator Stephen Biesty and popular children's history writer Stewart Ross explore some of the boldest, most daring expeditions of all time, using fold-out pages, cross-section drawings and dramatic storytelling. Twist through the waves of the stormy North Atlantic in a Viking knarr with Leif Ericsson or burst into the stratosphere in a balloon with Auguste Piccard, cross the deserts of the Silk Road in a caravan with Marco Polo or land on the moon in the Apollo 11 lunar module...
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| Contents |
Fourteen amazing journeys
340 BC Pytheas the Greek sails to the Arctic Circle
AD 1003 Leif Eriksson reaches the coast of America
1271-1274 Marco Polo rides the Silk Road to China
1405-1407 Admiral Zheng He crosses the Indian Ocean
1492 Christopher Columbus sails to the Caribbean
1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan's fleet circumnavigates the world
1768*1771 Captain Cook maps the Pacific Ocean
1858-1864 David Livingstone explores the Zambezi River
1895 Mary Kingsley travels alone in West Africa
1928 Umberto Nobile flies over the North Pole
1932 Auguste Piccard ascends into the stratosphere
1960 Jacques Piccard dives to the Challenger Deep
1953 Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay climb Everest
1969 Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin land on the moon
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| Standard Number |
9780763649487 Hb.
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