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Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers / illustrated by Jessamy Hawke ; written by Nellie Huang ; [with a foreword by Barbara Hillary].

Huang, Nellie, 1982- (author.). Hawke, Jessamy, (illustrator.). Hillary, Barbara, 1931-2019 (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind's knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781465481573
  • ISBN: 1465481575
  • Physical Description: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
  • Edition: First American edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : DK Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"DK Smithsonian."
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Sea & ice -- Land -- Air & space.
Target Audience Note:
IG1070L Lexile
Subject:
Explorers > History > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Discoveries in geography > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Biographies.

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  • 13 of 13 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries.

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Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield J910.922 Hua (Text) 38950611327869 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -

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