"Little explorers discover great big world"--Back cover.

"A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level"-- Summer, 1930. Aboard a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, marine biologist Gloria Hollister sat with a telephone receiver pressed to her ear. The phone line was attached to a steel cable that plunged 3,000 feet into the sea. There, suspended by the cable, dangled a four-and-a-half-foot...

Retells the daring adventures of the explorer who was the first Englishman to sail around the world; helped to defeat the Spanish Armada; and who, encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I, was a feared pirate in his time.

Elena and her sister Isabel must work together to help undo a curse when an explorer is turned into a gecko!

The epic race to the South Pole between rival explorers Scott and Amundsen is one of the greatest adventure stories of the twentieth century. Their motives and methods were quite different, but their aim was the same-to plant their country's flag first.