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Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A photo essay about ancient to modern explorations of the land, sea, and air.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett’s father threatens Genester’s inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is attacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discover how the greatest explorers in history plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross sections, dramatic storytelling, and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places, and technology, readers explore fourteen historic journeys.
Author
Language
English
Description
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess.
Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian,...
Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1999], �1997
Language
English
Description
They called themselves the Corps of Discovery, yet they would fail to find the primary object of their mission: the Northwest Passage, a mythical all-river route through the mountains. Instead their real discovery would be the land itself--and the promises it held. 150 illustrations, 100 in color.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.
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