The history news
Subtitle: explorers
By: author, Michael Johnstone ; consultant, Shane Winser
Contributors: Winser, Shane
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780763609856
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Explorers
Other titles: Explorers
Description: Uses a newspaper format to present the adventures and accomplishments of such explorers as Columbus, Cortes, and Cook.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 1353.  Early explorers: Across the seas ; Phoenicians: Hanno's a hero ; Chinese: The world beyond ; Vikings: Eriksson's new land ; Ibn Battuta: A man of the world.; title: 1400-1522.  Columbus: A world in the West ; Magellan: Living to tell the tale ; Do-it-yourself trip mapping the world: Junk this map ; World map: Major explorers' routes.; title: 1500-1550.  Mexico and Central America: Spanish hero dies ; North America: What about the North?; title: 1600-1780.  Captain Cook: A strange choice?; title: 1800-1900.  Crossing America: Girl guide ; Crossing Australia: Tragedy in the Outback ; Africa: Four of the best Livingstone alive!; title: 1900-today.  North Pole: Peary's at Pole! ; South Pole: Amundsen triumphs ; Beneath the oceans: The depths of the world ; Where to next?; title: Time line.