Great Explorers: Discovering the World
by Jim Pipe Author
Great Explorers Captures all the thrill of exploration; its fears, dangers and hardships, encounters with hostile landscapes and peoples - and the excitement of discovery and progress. Explore every corner of the globe. Meet Magellan, Pizarro, Cartier. Livingstone, Peary, Amundsen, Scott and many more. Encounter desolate wilderness and inhospitable peoples. Overcome danger, fear and appalling hardship. Experience miraculous adventures and extraordinary escapes. Understand the adventurous spirits of every age.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780199118809
- Print Status
- In Print
- Assignments
- 54
- Pages
- 128
- Suggested Grades
- 2nd - 8th
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Copyright
- 2008
Assignments
- 1 Why Explore?
- 2 First Explorers
- 3 Ancient Explorers
- 4 Africa
- 5 Overview
- 6 Mungo Park
- 7 Rene-August Caillie
- 8 Burton and Speke
- 9 Livingstone and Stanley
- 10 Mary Kingsley
- 11 Asia
- 12 Overview
- 13 Marco Polo
- 14 Ibn Battuta
- 15 Zheng He
- 16 Vasco Da Gama
- 17 Nikolai Przewalski
- 18 Isabella Bird
- 19 Oceania
- 20 Overview
- 21 James Cook
- 22 Matthew Flinders
- 23 Ludwig Leichhardt
- 24 Burke and Willw
- 25 North America
- 26 Overview
- 27 Leif Ericsson
- 28 Christopher Columbus
- 29 Jaques Cartier
- 30 Samuel De Champlain
- 31 Daniel Boone
- 32 Lewis and Clark
- 33 Central and South America
- 34 Overview
- 35 Nernan Cortes
- 36 Francisco Pizarro
- 37 Francisco De Orellana
- 38 Alexander Von Humboldt
- 39 Polar Regions
- 40 Overview
- 41 Vitus Bering
- 42 John Franklin
- 43 Peary and Henson
- 44 Scott and Amundsen
- 45 Douglas Mawson
- 46 Ernest Shackleton
- 47 Across the World
- 48 Overview
- 49 Ferdinand Magellan
- 50 Future Frontiers
- 51 Ocean
- 52 Space
- 53 North American Explorers
- 54 Glossary, Further Reading, & Websites
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