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Columbus
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Laurence Bergreen |
An epic historical adventure awaits. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed ev… |
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National Geographic 125 years
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Mark Collins Jenkins |
"Featuring show-stopping imagery and thrilling behind-the-scenes tales, National Geographic 125 Years captures the heart of National Geographic's fascinating history, from its earliest days as a scie… |
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The broken spears
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Lysander Kemp |
"For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of ex… |
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Rocket men
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Robert Kurson |
Shares the inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing on the lives of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted … |
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Endurance
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Alfred Lansing |
"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battlin… |
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China at the center
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Natasha Reichle,Theodore N. Foss,Mark Stephen Mir |
"Global exploration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to new interactions between Europe and Asia. Jesuit priests were instrumental in spreading knowledge of the world to China and infor… |
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Ice ghosts
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Paul Watson |
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Where War Lives and expedition member describes how an unlikely combination of marine science and Inuit knowledge helped solve the mystery of the lost … |
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Wonderlandscape
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Clayton, John |
xvii, 285 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm |
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