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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
ISBN: 9780375810497 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The harrowing story of the ill-fated Endurance, now in paperback. In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 men sailed from England in an attempt to become the first team of explorers to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Five months later and still 100 miles from land, their ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The expedition survived another five months camping on ice floes, followed by a perilous journey through stormy seas to remote and unvisited Elephant Island. In a dramatic climax to this amazing survival story, Shackleton and five others navigated 800 miles of...
The harrowing story of the ill-fated Endurance, now in paperback. In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 men sailed from England in an attempt t...
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53,01 zł |
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Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President
ISBN: 9780375811203 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sends Lewis and Clark out west to explore. He tells them to make maps. He tells them to draw pictures and collect plants. Most importantly, he tells them to send presents! What kind of present is good enough for a president? Beginning readers will truly enjoy reading about this fun and little-known slice of American history.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sends Lewis and Clark out west to explore. He tells them to make maps. He tells them to draw pictures and collect ...
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21,01 zł |
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The New York Public Library Amazing Explorers: A Book of Answers for Kids
ISBN: 9780471392910 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Sail down the Ivory Coast with the ancient Phoenicians. Meet the Kublai Khan with Marco Polo. Join the Antarctic explorers in their race to reach the South Pole. Discover vast new lands, plumb the depths of the deepest oceans, and venture into outer space. Find answers to everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's greatest adventurers and explorers...
Who was the greatest general & explorer of the ancient world? See page 7. What was the Silk Road? See page 11. What caused the Age of Exploration? See page 23. What was considered the worst crime on... Sail down the Ivory Coast with the ancient Phoenicians. Meet the Kublai Khan with Marco Polo. Join the Antarctic explorers in their race to reach the ...
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69,06 zł |
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Exploration of North America Coloring Book
ISBN: 9780486271231 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The frenzied search for gold and the territorial rivalries of European monarchs provided the necessary catalysts for much early exploration and colonization in the New World. This entertaining and educational coloring book recreates detailed pictures of many key moments--when European explorers and settlers left historical footprints on the North American continent.
Thirty-nine realistically rendered line drawings -- many of them double-page spreads -- depict historic events that span centuries of exploration -- from the arrival of the Vikings in Vinland (ca. 1000 A.D.) to the... The frenzied search for gold and the territorial rivalries of European monarchs provided the necessary catalysts for much early exploration and coloni...
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21,01 zł |
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Explorers of North America
ISBN: 9780531147825 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. - Clean new design for easy readability and comprehension
- Updated text presented in a lively, continuous narrative - New center-spread "sidebar" feature presenting material in a fun, creative way - Excellent age-appropriate introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects - "Words to Know" glossary clarifies subject-specific vocabulary - "Learn More" section encourages independent study - Index makes navigating subject matter easy - Clean new design for easy readability and comprehension
- Updated text presented in a lively, continuous narrative - New center-spread "sideba... |
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28,85 zł |
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Five Brave Explorers (Scholastic Reader, Level 4): Five Brave Explorers (Level 4)
ISBN: 9780590480321 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Follows five explorers: Mae Jemison, space traveler; Esteban, who discovered Arizona and New Mexico; James Beckwourth, who developed the American West; Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of the city of Chicago; and Matthew Henson, the first African American to reach the North Pole.
Follows five explorers: Mae Jemison, space traveler; Esteban, who discovered Arizona and New Mexico; James Beckwourth, who developed the American West...
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17,01 zł |
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Lewis & Clark Go on a Hike
ISBN: 9780635021229 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When the President of the United States tells you to take-a-hike!, you do! So, when Thomas Jefferson told Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find a passage across America, they did! With this book in hand, kids will walk back in time as they explore--side-by-side with Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea--the undiscovered country in the heart of America. Maps, mazes, trivia, journal entries, and a wide variety of interactive reading will get all your little explorers raring to get out there and make their own discoveries!
When the President of the United States tells you to take-a-hike!, you do! So, when Thomas Jefferson told Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find a...
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36,29 zł |
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Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620
ISBN: 9780688154745 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas, but his voyages led to European exploration of the New World. Rich in resources and natural beauty, the Americas were irresistible to gold-hungry conquistadors. The newcomers gave little thought to those who had called the lands their home, and exploration soon came to signify conquest. The New World -- and the lives of its inhabitants -- would be changed forever. Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas, but his voyages led to European exploration of the New World. Rich in resources an... |
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33,01 zł |
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Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude
ISBN: 9780689842160 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far and near without really knowing where they were "
Sailors knew how to measure latitude, their location north or south of the equator, but they could not measure longitude, their location east or west of their home port. Because of this, many lives were lost worldwide. The key to solving this problem lay in devising a clock that could keep absolutely accurate time while at sea, unaltered by rough water or weather conditions. With such a timekeeper sailors would be able to know the time back at their home port and... "For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far and near without really knowing where they were "
Sailors knew how to ... |
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81,02 zł |
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Louisiana Purchase
ISBN: 9780689864438 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Uncharted Territory
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000. The purchase made President Jefferson's dream of extending the U.S. west of the Mississippi River come true. Now the much larger United States had difficult questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided into states? Would those states be free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans? It would take over one hundred years, a war over slavery, and the creation of thirteen new states before these questions... Uncharted Territory
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000. The purchase made P... |
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29,01 zł |
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Around the World in a Hundred Years
ISBN: 9780698116382 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Newbery-Honor winning author, Jean Fritz, brings history to life once again in 10 true tales of 15th-century European explorers True tales of our world's greatest 15th century explorers, from Bartholomew Diaz and Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de Leon and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, are fascinatingly portrayed, complimented with the softly shaded pencil illustrations of Anthony Bacon Venti. Readers are led through a one-hundred-year period when Europeans explored the world and mapped the globe, while selfishly feeding their own curiosity and greed along the way. Fritz includes...
Newbery-Honor winning author, Jean Fritz, brings history to life once again in 10 true tales of 15th-century European explorers True tales...
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37,01 zł |
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The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed the World
ISBN: 9780792264545 / Angielski / Twarda / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. National Geographic has always given readers the bigger picture of our world. Now The World Made New shows children the bigger context of American history. Written by award-winning children's author Marc Aronson and John W. Glenn, this innovative title will lead children through the causes and consequences of the defining age of exploration. Its unique approach will provide children with new ways of thinking about and learning from history, and instill a lasting sense of our country's past. The World Made New provides a detailed account of the charting of the New World and...
National Geographic has always given readers the bigger picture of our world. Now The World Made New shows children the bigger context of Ameri...
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72,86 zł |
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Trapped by the Ice!: Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventure
ISBN: 9780802776334 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, the Endurance, was finally crushed and Shackleton and his men made the very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, th... |
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41,01 zł |
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Opening Up North America
ISBN: 9780816052615 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Interesting topics include: African Americans in the fur trade; Beaver hats; Captivity narratives; Father Jean de Brebeuf learns the Huron language; Flintlock muskets; Native women and the fur trade; Richard Hakluyt and the voyages; St. Elmo's fire.
Interesting topics include: African Americans in the fur trade; Beaver hats; Captivity narratives; Father Jean de Brebeuf learns the Huron language; F...
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211,55 zł |
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Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West
ISBN: 9780823412730 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.
The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.
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33,01 zł |
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A Book of Discovery
ISBN: 9781599151922 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A fascinating account of the world's famous explorers, including the early travelers in ancient times, the discovery of the New World, explorations in Africa and Australia, and the expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Many of the explorers tell part of their story in their own words. Amply illustrated with reproductions of early maps and charts, as well as old woodcuts, drawings, paintings, and miniatures. Emphasis is placed on the explorers' "record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of...
A fascinating account of the world's famous explorers, including the early travelers in ancient times, the discovery of the New World, explorations in...
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107,89 zł |
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If You Were There in 1492: Everyday Life in the Time of Columbus
ISBN: 9780689822414 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chock-full of little-known facts and written with you-are-there immediacy, this volume explores everyday life in Spain at the end of the 15th century.
Chock-full of little-known facts and written with you-are-there immediacy, this volume explores everyday life in Spain at the end of the 15th century.
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37,01 zł |
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The Zebulon Pike Expedition
ISBN: 9781604535181 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This title examines an important historic event, the Zebulon Pike Expedition. Readers will learn about events leading up to the expedition, key players and happenings in the expedition, and the event's effect on society. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Events is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.
This title examines an important historic event, the Zebulon Pike Expedition. Readers will learn about events leading up to the expedition, key player...
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149,35 zł |
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Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491
ISBN: 9781416949008 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A companion book for young readers based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, the groundbreaking bestseller by Charles C. Mann.
A companion book for young readers based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, the groundbreaking bestseller by Charles C. Mann.
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101,02 zł |
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Exploration in the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780778745938 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Part of the Renaissance World series, this title helps you learn all about the Age of Exploration, where brave Europeans sailed around the world in search of sea routes to Asia and India - and found much more than anticipated. It is suitable for ages 11 to 12 years.
Part of the Renaissance World series, this title helps you learn all about the Age of Exploration, where brave Europeans sailed around the world in se...
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107,47 zł |
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