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Pipe, Jim, 1966-
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Explorers -- Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature.
Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile literature.
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Pipe, Jim, 1966-
Explorers -- Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature.
Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile literature.
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Great
explorers
/ Jim Pipe.
by
Pipe, Jim, 1966-
Oxford University Press, c2008.
Call #:
910.922 P664g
Subjects
Explorers
-- Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature.
Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780199116782 (pbk.)
Description:
128 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 29 cm.
Notes:
"Discovering the world"--Cover.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125) and index.
Summary:
The book captures all the thrill of exploration; its fears, dangers and hardships; encounters with hostile landscapes and peoples, and the excitement of progress. All areas of the globe are covered and the journeys of
explorers
both famous and not so famous: Florence Baker in Egypt and Sudan; Mary Kingsley in West Africa; Lewis and Clark across the US; Franklin and Leary at the North Pole and Amundsen and Scott at the South. The book is arranged by region, and chronologically within that region. It captures the spirit of each age and explains how
explorers
, through reaching lands unknown to them, encountered peoples supporting advanced civilizations of their own. The final chapter examines the legacy of a region's exploration, by explaining its political, economic and other consequences, whether they be the settlement of a continent or the creation of lasting national myths, as in Scott's doomed mission to Antarctica.
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