Women Explorers in North and South America

Women Explorers in North and South America
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781560655077

Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in North and South America.

Women Explorers in North America and South America

Women Explorers in North America and South America
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Children's Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1997-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780516204994

Each book in this unique series takes readers on a journey through the lives and discoveries of five women explorers. Dynamic and inspirational, these books detail real-life adventures, such as fending off crocodiles in the African jungle and trekking across the frozen plains of Siberia.

Great Voyages

Great Voyages
Author: Deborah Patterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Discoveries in geography
ISBN: 9780712352857

Discover the world through the eyes of the greatest explorers in history. Find out how the world was first circumnavigated by a slave and how travelers overcame the challenge of not having enough to eat and drink while traveling through unknown territory. Experience the excitement of seeing a new land for the first time, tasting new fruits and discovering new animals. This book focuses on 15 key voyages from around the world: the journeys undertaken by Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Maria Sibylla Merian, Captain Cook, Lewis & Clark, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Gertrude Bell, Ernest Shackleton, and astronauts who took part in the Moon landings.

Women Explorers of the Oceans

Women Explorers of the Oceans
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1999-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780736803120

Discusses the lives and accomplishments of five twentieth-century women who traveled and explored the oceans of the world, some of whom also studied marine life.

Women Explorers in Polar Regions

Women Explorers in Polar Regions
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781560655084

Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored the polar regions.

Women Explorers

Women Explorers
Author: Julia Cummins
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2015-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0147517362

Introduces inspiring women whose passions for exploration made them push the boundaries, including Nellie Cashman, Annie Smith Peck, and Delia Julia Denning Akeley.

Women Explorers in Asia

Women Explorers in Asia
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781560655060

Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored such places as Tibet, Iran, and the steppes of Russia.

Women Explorers of the World

Women Explorers of the World
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1999-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780736803137

Presents brief biographies of five women who risked their lives to travel around the world for adventure and to achieve career goals.

Baghdad Sketches

Baghdad Sketches
Author: Freya Stark
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810160231

In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the wilder corners of the region.

Women Explorers in Africa

Women Explorers in Africa
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781560655053

Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.