03713cam a2200577 i 4500 2253801170 TxAuBib 20250521120000.0 190925s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019286638 9781465481573 hardcover 1465481575 hardcover 9780241343784 hardback 024134378X hardback (OCoLC)1105617489 TxAuBib rda Huang, Nellie, 1982-, author. Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers / illustrated by Jessamy Hawke ; written by Nellie Huang. DK Smithsonian. Amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers. First American edition. New York, NY : Smithsonian Institution, 2019. 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier DK Smithsonian Includes index. Sea & ice. Pytheas -- Leif Erikson -- Zheng He -- The age of exploration -- Christopher Columbus -- Voyage to the Americas -- Vasco da Gama -- Ferdinand Magellan -- The dark side of exploration -- James Cook -- Jeanne Baret -- Bungaree -- Matthew Henson -- Roald Amundsen & Robert Falcon Scott -- Scott's supplies -- Ernest Shackleton -- Jacques Cousteau -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Barbara Hillary -- Sylvia Earle -- Robert Ballard -- Ranulph Fiennes -- Sung-Taek Hong ; Land. Zuanzang -- Rabban Bar Sauma -- Marco Polo -- Marco Polo's influence -- Ibn Battuta -- Hernán Cortés -- Esteban Dorantes -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Meriwether Lewis, William Clark & Sacagawea -- Fort Clatsop -- Charles Darwin -- Darwin's discoveries -- David Livingstone & Henry Morton Stanley -- Henri Mouhot -- Francisco Moreno -- Nellie Bly -- Gertrude Bell -- Ynés Mexia -- Annie Londonderry -- Howard Carter -- Inside the tomb -- Treasure from afar -- Hiram Bingham -- Freya Stark -- Recording the journey -- Aloha Wanderwell -- The Villas- Boâs Brothers -- Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay -- Junko Tabei -- Karen Darke -- Mario Rigby ; Air & space. Amelia Earhart -- Charles Lindbergh -- Yuri Gagarin & Valentina Tereshkova -- Journey to the moon -- Moon landing -- Mae Jemison -- Namira Salim -- Where to next? -- More adventurers. "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 [to] re-create history's greatest expeditions"--Publisher marketing. 20250521. Explorers History Juvenile literature. Adventure and adventurers Juvenile literature. Adventure and adventurers. Discoveries in geography Juvenile literature. Discoveries in geography. Explorers. Instructional and educational works. fast Illustrated works. fast Biographies. fast History. fast Juvenile works. fast Instructional and educational works. lcgft Biographies. lcgft Illustrated works. lcgft Hawke, Jessamy, illustrator. DK Smithsonian.