Extraordinary explorers and adventurers
By: Judy Alter
Series: Extraordinary people
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780516216935; 9780516272849
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Explorers; Adventure and adventurers
Description: Presents biographical sketches of explorers and adventurers throughout history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-271) and index.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 8.7 13.
Table of contents: title: Hercules; title: Odysseus; title: Jason; title: Gilgamesh; title: Alexander the Great; title: Pytheas; title: Hoei-shin; title: Brendan the Navigator; title: Leif Eriksson and the Vikings; title: Marco Polo; title: John Sebastian Cabot and Sebastian Cabot; title: Christopher Columbus; title: Amerigo Vespucci; title: Juan Ponce de Leon; title: Vasco da Gama; title: Vasco Nunez de Balboa; title: Francisco Pizarro; title: Ferdinand Magellan; title: Hernan Cortes; title: Giovanni da Verrazzano; title: Cabeza de Vaca; title: Jacques Cartier; title: Hernando de Soto; title: Francisco de Orellana; title: Francisco Vasquez de Coronado; title: Sir Francis Drake; title: Sir Walter Raleigh; title: Samuel de Champlain; title: Henry Hudson; title: Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle; title: Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet; title: Vitus Jonassen Bering; title: Captain James Cook; title: Daniel Boone; title: Sir Alexander Mackenzie; title: The Franciscan friars; title: William Clark and Meriwether Lewis; title: Sacagawea; title: Davy Crockett; title: Sir John Franklin- - Hamilton Hume; title: Charles Wilkes; title: Jim Beckwourth; title: Joe Walker; title: Jedediah Strong Smith; title: Jim Bridger; title: Christopher "Kit" Carson; title: John Charles Fremont; title: Dr. David Livingstone; title: Sir Richard Burton; title: Robert Edwin Peary; title: Matthew Henson; title: Wilber and Orville Wright; title: Roald Amundsen; title: Sir Ernest Shackleton; title: George Mallory and Andrew Irvine; title: Admiral Richard E. Byrd; title: Ormer Locklear; title: Amelia Earhart; title: Charles A. Lindbergh; title: Jacqueline Cochran; title: Jacques-Yves Cousteau; title: Thor Heyerdahl; title: Sir Edmund Hillary; title: John H. Glenn, Jr.; title: Chuck Yeager; title: Dr. Robert Ballard; title: Shannon Lucid; title: Balloonists; title: Christa McAuliffe; title: Sally Ride; title: Eileen Collins; title: Mae Jemison.