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Explorers and pioneers : intrepid adventurers who achieved the unthinkable / Lyn Coutts.
In the pages of this book, you'll discover the inspiring, real life stories of adventurers and voyagers. Each entry explores how, through courage and determination, these people achieved what seemed to be the impossible - and helped us expand our horizons beyond ordinary expectations.The men and women profiled here come from all four corners of the globe and across time. Includes entries about Sacagawea, Neil Armstrong, Jacques Cousteau, Charles Darwin, Isabella Bird, Yuri Gagarin, Gertrude Bell, and more.
Record details
- ISBN: 1438050380
- ISBN: 9781438050386
- Physical Description: 64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Edition: First edition for the United States and Canada.
- Publisher: Hauppauge, NY : Barron's Educational Series, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | What are explorers and pioneers? -- Roald Amundsen -- Edmund Hillary -- Neil Armstrong -- Gertrude Bell -- Ernest Shackleton -- Sacagawea -- Martin and Osa Johnson -- Ida Pfeiffer -- Laura Dekker -- Christopher Columbus -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Yuri Gagarin -- James Cook -- Ranulph Fiennes -- Jacques Cousteau -- Charles Darwin -- Reinhold Messner -- Isabella Bird -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- John Franklin -- Benjamin "Pap" Singleton -- Jacques Piccard -- Aloha Wanderwell -- Annie Londonderry -- Daniel Boone -- Heinrich Barth -- Nellie Bly -- More explorers & pioneers. |
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| Subject: | Explorers > Biography. |
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