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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 31 cm
Description
"Join two daredevil journalists, Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, as they race against each other--and the ticking clock--to circle the globe in fewer than 80 days. And by any means possible--ship, train, even foot! Bly, energetic and scrappy, and Bisland, poetic and sophisticated, shared one common goal: to prove that women could not only travel the world but were just as curious, capable, and courageous as any man. Did it really matter who won...
63) In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (726 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + DVD-ROM (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
Go on spectacular journeys with young Indy as he travels through Europe, Africa and Asia and comes face to face with Vladimir Lenin, Charles de Gaulle, The Red Baron, and other fascinating characters during the turbulent years of World War I.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
In a deeply researched and engagingly written narrative of science, adventure, love, and an unprecedented voyage of discovery, Ridley reveals the true story of Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxi, 457 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Everybody knows--or thinks they know--Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist--on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna. Retracing Darwin's footsteps in South America and beyond, geologist Rob Wesson treks across the Andes, cruises waters charted by the Beagle, hunts for fossils in...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
110 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Description
The Atlas Obscura Explorers Guide for the Worlds Most Adventuruous Kid is an imaginative expedition to 100 weird-but-true places on earth. The authors take the reader hopscotching from country to country, not by location, but by type of attraction. For example, visit the site of the Tunguska event in Siberia, where a meteor slammed into the earth in 1908and then skip over to the Yucatan, ground zero for the ancient meteor crash that caused the mass...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On January 25, 1890, the world waited for a young reporter named Nellie Bly to arrive back home. For 72 days, newspaper readers followed her progress in one of the most highly publicized journeys of all times.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As Tsh Oxenreider chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home. In her late thirties and as a mom to three kids under age ten, Tsh Oxenreider and her husband decided to spend a rather ordinary nine months in an extraordinary way: traveling the corners of the earth to see, together, the places they've always wanted to explore....
Series
Adventures of young Indiana Jones volume 1
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (649 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join the amazing journeys of young Indy as he crosses paths with Picasso, Freud, Edison and other larger-than-life luminaries on his travels around the world.
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