Lives of the explorers : discoveries, disasters (and what the neighbors thought) /

"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Krull, Kathleen
Other Authors:	Hewitt, Kathryn
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, [2014]
Subjects:	Explorers > Biography > Juvenile literature. Adventure and adventurers > Biography > Juvenile literature. Discoveries in geography > Juvenile literature. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Adventure & Adventurers. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / General. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical. JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General. JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / General. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Transportation / Boats, Ships & Underwater Craft. Explorers. Adventure and adventurers. Discoveries in geography. Biography. Juvenile works.

Table of Contents:

In search of trees : Leif Ericson
"Only the half of what I saw" : Marco Polo
Kindness of strangers : Ibn Battuta
Everyone likes presents : Zheng He
"Gold is most excellent" : Christopher Columbus
Flying pigs : Ferdinand Magellan
The final four years : Henry Hudson
Eat your sauerkraut : James Cook
In love with wilderness : Daniel Boone
Dancing by campfire : Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacajawea
Thousand and One Nights : Richard Francis Burton
gun or no gun? : Isabella Bird
Body parts on the ceiling : Mary Kingsley
The kind one : Matthew Henson
Naming a new land after "Mommie" : Richard E. Byrd
Up and down : Auguste and Jacques Piccard
Blast off! : Sally Ride.