The Explorers

Author: Martin Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145167757X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
"In The Explorers, New York Times bestselling author Martin Dugard shares the rich saga of the Burton and Speke expedition. To better understand their motivations and ultimate success, Dugard guides readers through the seven vital traits that Burton and Speke, as well as many of history's legendary explorers, called upon to see their impossible journeys through to the end: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance."--www.Amazon.com.

The Usborne Book of Explorers

Author: Felicity Everett
Publisher: Usborne Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780794515331
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
Describes explorers and voyages of exploration throughout history, organized into such geographical categories as Asia, the Americas, and mountains, and including such explorers as Marco Polo, Jacques Cartier, and James Cook.

The Explorer

Author: Katherine Rundell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481419471
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they’re on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to a secret.

The Explorers Guild

Author: Kevin Costner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471153738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 792

Book Description
The golden age of adventure stories returns with this splendidly designed, action-packed, globe-trotting tale that combines the bravura storytelling of Kipling with the irresistible style of The Adventures of Tintin. Behind the staid public rooms of an old world gentlemen's club operates a more mysterious organization: The Explorers' Guild, a clandestine group of adventurers who bravely journey to those places in which light gives way to shadow and reason is usurped by myth. The secrets they seek are hidden in mountain ranges and lost in deserts, buried in the ocean floor and lodged deep in polar ice. The aim of The Explorers' Guild: to discover the mysteries that lie beyond the boundaries of the known world. Set against the backdrop of World War I, with Western Civilization on the edge of calamity, the first installment in The Explorers' Guild series, A Passage to Shambhala, concerns the Guild's quest to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. The search will take them from the Polar North to the Mongolian deserts, through the underground canals of Asia to deep inside the Himalayas, before the fabled city finally divulges its secrets and the globe-spanning journey plays out to its startling conclusion. The Explorers' Guild is a rare publishing opportunity, powered by the creative passion of one of the world's true storytelling masters, Kevin Costner.

The Explorers

Author: Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802137197
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
" ... the writings of the men and women who traversed, circumnavigated, and settled the continent ..."--Cover.

The Explorers Club

Author: The Explorers Club
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1984859986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity. This guided tour of The Club’s most riveting journeys includes hundreds of photos and fascinating anecdotes about The Club’s distinguished members, including Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall. From the darkest depths of the ocean to the highest points on Earth and to outer space and beyond, this book shares not just the inspirational history of modern exploration, but also reveals how it has evolved and continues to be relevant—even urgent—today.

Lives of the Explorers

Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152059105
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
"This fascinating new installment in the popular Lives of . . . series of collective biographies is full of juicy tidbits about history's greatest explorers"--

As Told At the Explorers Club

Author: George Plimpton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493047450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the Gobi Desert might kick back and, over some port, have a chat with a fellow off to Bandung.This updated edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wiese, the 44th president of The Explorers Club, and an all-new photo insert that takes readers inside the exclusive club and its world-famous adventure archives. Here then, are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure, including: Anthony Fiola on being in close quarters with a polar bear Charles Lindbergh on his famous flight Felix Reisenberg on the Arctic Anne Keenleyside, Ph. D. on cannibalism Roald Amundsen on the explorer Stefansson Mervyn Cowie on hunting killer lions Jean-Marc Boivin on hang-gliding Curtis and Kathleen Saville on oceanic rowing E. W. Deming on Sitting Bull's mysterious death It's some of the finest writing on some of the most hair-raising journeys ever made, all selected by the late George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club.

The Explorers' and Assayers' Companion

Author: Josiah Samuel Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assaying
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description

Bridges: Native Americans at the Time of the Explorers

Author: Steven Otfinoski
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1450927955
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Identifies different Native American tribes and describes the first encounters between the early explorers and the Indians.