Exploration And Discovery category: 202 books
by Judith St. George, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of...
Team Moon
How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
“This behind-the-scenes look at the first Apollo moon landing has the feel of a public television documentary in its breadth and detail” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story...
Finding the Titanic
How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that’s where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until...
by Janice Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
History has not been kind to Henry Hudson. He's been dismissed as a short-tempered man who played favorites with his crew and had an unstoppable ambition and tenacity. Although he gave his name to a mighty river, an important strait, and a huge bay, today he is remembered more for the mutiny that...
by Jill K. Mulhall
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This adventurous biography highlights the expeditions made by Meriweather Lewis and William Clark. Readers will be able to explore the amazing accomplishments that these two men, Sacagawea, and the rest of the Corps of Discovery made. The incredible journey of these surveyers and mountaineers are...
by Deborah Hopkinson, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts...
The Silk Road
Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route with 20 Projects
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
From Roman times until the Age of Exploration, the Silk Road carried goods and ideas across Central Asia between two major centers of civilization, the Mediterranean Sea and China. In The Silk Road: Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route, readers ages 9–12 will learn about the history, geography,...
Shackles From the Deep
Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A pile of lime-encrusted shackles discovered on the seafloor in the remains of a ship called the Henrietta Marie, lands Michael Cottman, a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and avid scuba diver, in the middle of an amazing journey that stretches across three continents, from foundries and tombs in...
Juan Ponce de León
First Explorer of Florida and First Governor of Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
While he is now primarily associated with the quest for the legendary Fountain of Youth, Ponce de León was not merely involved in this fruitless search. A powerful figure in the Caribbean, he became the first governor of Puerto Rico. He led the first European expedition to Florida and was responsible...
by Wendy Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Christopher Colombus is one of the most famous explorers of all time. Young readers will learn about the discoveries he made in this fascinating biography. Using vivid images, supportive text, and engaging sidebars, children will learn about Colombus' exploration to the New World and what an impact...
by Brad Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Sacagawea, the only Native American included in Lewis and Clark’s historic expedition, joins the inspiring list of heroes whose stories are told in this New York Times Bestselling biography series.
Sacagawea was the only girl, and the only Native American, to join Lewis and Clark’s Corps...
by Emily Sebastian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The colonization of Latin America and the Caribbean followed the European discovery of the Americas. As the first wave of Western colonialism, the majority of the nations of Latin America had already won their independence from Spain and Portugal before colonialism had fully taken root in other parts...
by Daniel Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Hiram Bingham was the ideal explorer-adventurer—handsome, rich, intelligent, brave, and tough. His life seems like something out of film hero Indiana Jones’s exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The descendant of strong-willed missionaries, Bingham was born in Hawaii in 1875, At Yale he...
Women Explorers
Perils, Pistols, and Petticoats!
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Meet ten inspiring women whose passions for exploration made them push the boundaries
Though most people have heard of explorers like Henry Hudson and Christopher Columbus, few have heard names like Nellie Cashman and Annie Smith Peck. Unfortunately, most of the brave women explorers have never...