Accidents May Happen: Fifty Inventions Discovered by Mistake
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From Wheaties to telephones, microwave ovens to yo-yos, here are the inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know ...
Delacorte Press
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Antarctic Adventure: Exploring the Frozen Continent
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The history of the exploration of the southernmost continent is filled with victory and defeat. These stories testify to the courage of the human spirit. Full-color illustrations....
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
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Around the World in a Hundred Years
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These ten true tales of 15th-century explorers bring history to life, with accounts of the exploits of Christopher Columbus, Bartholomew Diaz, Ponce de Leon, and others....
Putnam Publishing Group
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Atlas of Exploration with CDROM
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This comprehensive guide to human exploration of the continents, oceans, and space is based on contemporary artifacts and historical research, and introduces readers to the world's...
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
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Brendan the Navigator
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If you ask children in Ireland who really discovered America, you may get this surprising answer: "St. Brendan, of course". He left Ireland 1,500 years ago in a leather boat to fin...
Putnam Publishing Group
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Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620
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but his voyages led to European exploration of the New World. Rich in resources and natural beauty, the Americas were irresistible to gold-hungry conquistadors. The newcomers gave ...
HarperTrophy
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Exploration of North America Coloring Book
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Exciting, detailed glimpses of key moments in western exploration, depicted in 39 meticulously researched, realistically rendered illustrations: Vikings in Vinland (ca. 1000 AD), C...
Dover Publications
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Explorers
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DARING CLIMBS, DEATH-DEFYING VOYAGES, DIVES INTO THE VERY DEPTHS--AND ONE SMALL STEP ONTO THE MOON Fandex celebrates the dreamers, scientists, poets and adventurers who opened t...
Workman Publishing
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Explorers News: Columbus in Japan?
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From the award-winning series that turns readers into discoverers!
People have been wandering the earth for 3,000 years. Now their astonishing discoveries and remarkable advent...
Candlewick Press (MA)
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Explorers of North America
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Completely redesigned for today's young investigative reader, True Books are an indispensable addition to any collection. Each book guides readers through the facts that nurture th...
Children's Press (CT)
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Explorers of North America
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- Clean new design for easy readability and comprehension
- Updated text presented in a lively, continuous narrative
- New center-spread "sidebar" feature presenting material...
Children's Press (CT)
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Explorers Who Got Lost
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Did you know that Christopher Columbus originally set out to discover the rich ports of Asia, but instead discovered the Bahama Islands, San Salvador and Cuba?Do you know which ...
Tor Books
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Great Black Heroes: Five Brave Explorers (Level 4)
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Follows five explorers: Mae Jemison, space traveler; Esteban, who discovered Arizona and New Mexico; James Beckwourth, who developed the American West; Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sabl...
Cartwheel Books
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Great Explorers: Marco Polo - Ibn Battuta - Vasco Da Gama - Christopher Columbus - Ferdinand Magellan - Captain Cook - Lewis and Clark
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From Marco Polo to the astronauts on the Apollo moon missions, here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them. They pushed back the fr...
Naxos Audiobooks
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Ice Wreck
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A hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out for the South Pole. They never made it. Within sight of land, the ship ran into dangerous waters filled with chunks of i...
Golden Books
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