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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr. Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time...
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English
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Professor Challenger leads an expedition to explore an isolated plateau rising above the Amazon jungles where they discover dinosaurs, primitive ape-men, and prehistoric monsters.
The Lost World, first published in 1912, tells the story of Professor Challenger, Professor Summerlee, adventurer Lord John Roxton, and reporter Ed Malone as they travel to a remote plateau in South America inhabited by dinosaurs, ape men, and prehistoric humans. In trying...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. Yearning for wider horizons, American geologist Jakob de Beyn joins a rival...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
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"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
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Publisher
Arizona State University
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
This documentary depicts John Wesley Powell's historic exploration through the heart of the Colorado Plateau, as well as changes that have occurred with the subsequent use and abuse of the Colorado River system. The expedition originated at Green River, Wyoming in 1869 and explored 1000 miles of territory through Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, the Grand Canyon and Arizona. It includes archival footage, new footage from a re- enactment of the expedition,...
9) Shackleton
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English
Description
Ernest Shackleton put out an ad requesting: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success. The 27 men who joined his expedition found that Shackleton was true to his word. This is the true story of their extraordinary ordeal, and the death-defying, 800-mile journey in an open boat across the world₂s worst seas that made...
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Language
English
Description
According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West,...
Publisher
SlingShot Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002, c1984]
Language
English
Description
"This spectacular National Geographic video takes you on a journey spanning 4,000 years of human history, including the dramatic re-creation of the 1869 Powell Expedition." Includes special behind-the-scenes bonus "The making of the Grand Canyon", DTS Surround Sound, Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán...
Publisher
Discovery Channel UK
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Can six people endure Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic rescue mission today? Using a replica boat, and the same equipment and clothing as would have been used in 1914, explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew attempt to follow in Shackleton's wake, going beyond the point of no return, using their firsthand extreme experience measured against historical accounts to unlock the secrets of Shackleton's survival.
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Publisher
Dakota Institute Press of the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers' encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark's adventures through their journey to the Bitterroot Mountains but have said little about the rest of their travels west of there. River of Promise fills a significant gap in our understanding of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition. Historian David...
18) Lewis & Clark
Series
Explorers of the world volume 9
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Two contemporary children meet explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who describe their search for the Northwest Passage and their observations along the way.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
For four hundred years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as one hundred million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this...