Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers / illustrated by Jessamy Hawke ; written by Nellie Huang ; [with a foreword by Barbara Hillary].

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Huang, Nellie [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: DK SmithsonianPublisher: New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2019Edition: First American editionDescription: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780241343784
024134378X
9781465481573
1465481575

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At head of title: DK Smithsonian
Amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers

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DDC classification:

910.92 14

Summary: From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind's knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds. - Amazon.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
J Biography	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Non-fiction	J 910.92 HUA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	10/10/2024	35830002115391

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Includes index.

From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to colonize, to scientific curiosity and missionary zeal, Explorers introduces history's most famous trail blazers-people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind's knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds. - Amazon.

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