A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers, this book profiles both ancient and recent explorers, including Alexander the Great, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Lewis and Clark, Wilfred Thesiger, and Yuri Gagarin. Combining entertaining fact and historical information with eye-catching illustration, author Gillian Clements places each explorer in the context of his or her own time with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions and technologies which were the springboards for their adventures, and the destinations that captured the world’s imagination at that time.
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Gr. 2-4. Beginning with the first prehistoric explorers and moving through recent explorations of space, this short introduction covers a wide variety of figures. Some names are well known: Leif Eriksson, Francis Drake, and Thor Heyerdahl. But many lesser-known explorers are introduced as well. William Jansz found trading opportunities for the Dutch East India Company in the 1600s, and Hugh Clapperton explored Africa in the early nineteenth century. The two to three paragraphs of information per subject are probably insufficient for school reports, and the few maps do not provide enough assistance for pupils. But this highly visual book (with an illustrated time line running along the bottom of the page) will attract browsers, and it is rare to find a book so comprehensive in terms of the men (and a few women) who wanted to see what was around the next bend. A glossary is appended. Linda Perkins
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[Gillian Clements] studied illustration under Raymong Briggs, and clearly shares her mentor's skill in the use of the cartoon format for storytelling Books for Keeps This pictorial romp through history is full of interesting information told in both the main text and the picture-laden pages! There are cross-curricular nuggets of information that will tempt readers to delve deeper School Librarian
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Great Explorers Very Colorful and Entertaining,
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The Picture History of Great Explorers offers very colorful and engaging pictures as it guides the reader through a pictorial history of explorers from the earliest explorers who entered America to the exploration of space. Maps provide the reader with visual images of the actual routes taken by these brave and adventurous men as their stories are shared in an engaging and knowledgeable format. Very helpful for teachers wishing to share the excitement of exploration with their students. Includes many of the explorers traditionally studied as well as some less-known ones.
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very big coverage, goes beyound a well-known names. Also great out-of-print the picture history of the great inventors
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South America, Native Americans, Saint Brendan, Great Southern Continent, North America, Northwest Passage, West Africa, Marco Polo, New Guinea, New Zealand, Atlantic Ocean, Lake Chad, New World, Pacific Ocean, Spice Islands, Cooper Creek, East Africa, Empty Quarter, Indian Ocean, North Pole, Rocky Mountains, South Africa, Ibn Battuta, John Smith, Nova Scotia New!
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South America, Native Americans, Saint Brendan, Great Southern Continent, North America, Northwest Passage, West Africa, Marco Polo, New Guinea, New Zealand, Atlantic Ocean, Lake Chad, New World, Pacific Ocean, Spice Islands, Cooper Creek, East Africa, Empty Quarter, Indian Ocean, North Pole, Rocky Mountains, South Africa, Ibn Battuta, John Smith, Nova Scotia New!
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- Native Americans (Sacred Symbols Series) by Mark Lehner on page 27, and page 38
- A Coloring Book of Great Explorers by Bellerophon Books in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 59
- The Jungle Book (Puffin Story Books) by Rudyard Kipling on page 74
- The Ancient World by Thomas W. Africa on page 10
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- The Picture History of Great Inventors by Gillian Clements in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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