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"A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get-and sell-the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international...

In 1684, wearing his father's faded cap, eleven-year-old Pierre Talon joins explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier on an ill-fated expedition to seek the Mississippi River, but after the expedition falls apart Pierre, deathly ill, is taken in by Hasinai Indians. Includes historical facts.

A biography of the geologist who first explored the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.

Retells in poetry 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.

This book tells of Francis Drake, the English explorer who captured Spanish ships filled with gold for Elizabeth I and who battled against the Spanish Armada.

Examines the famous journey of the explorers Lewis and Clark to find the Northwest Passage across the North American Continent.

American literary giant Washington Irving relates the true stories of Captain James Bonneville, one of the first explorers of the American West, in this gripping classic.

Lucy Dakota, a typical teenage girl, troubled by bad relationships and difficulty fitting in at school until she joins an adventure scouting club and starts exploring the natural world.