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Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
Language
English
Description
Play With Me: Arctic Animals is a curated set of materials designed to engage a young child or a family in play learning and fostering creativity. This kit includes 2 books (Arctic Animals and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You See?), 1 marine life puzzle, 1 magna tiles set, 1 igloo number matching game, and assorted wooden arctic animals.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.
Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him.
This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years, a hero as important...
7) Snowbound
Author
Publisher
Forge
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After a failed expedition to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, Frémont finds himself trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains. His choices are simple: die, or fight his way out.
Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance. Non-Aboriginal histories of Australia generally regard Captain Cook as the person who discovered Australia, although historical records show that he was not the first European to step onto Australian shores. Contemporary Aboriginal accounts of Captain Cook that survive bear little relationship to this history upheld by non-Aboriginal...
Author
Publisher
Castle Books
Language
English
Description
"Coleman delves into minute details of every day life of the early settlers, including what both women and men wore, what their diet consisted of, and their struggles within their own leadership, and England. He explores how our country came to be by bringing to life the men and women who had lived and died, worked and loitered, sacrificed and sinned, and succeeded and failed."--pub. desc.
15) Monsoon
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Captivate is published by Capstone Press
Language
English
Description
"Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton led an expedition across Antarctica in 1914. Did you know that science played a big role in this dangerous journey? Learn how weather patterns affected the explorer in Antarctica. Find out the science behind Shackleton's ship, The Endurance . And discover how modern technology is being used to find out even more about this adventure more than 100 years later"--
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Language
English
Description
"For kids 8 to 13, join the largest Arctic expedition ever undertaken--and discover the secrets hidden deep in the ice that reveal how one of the world's crucial ecosystems is changing. The Arctic is changing--fast. The once-frozen landscape is melting before our eyes, and the effects can be felt around the world. But the Arctic is also the region we know the least about. Thick ice, extreme cold, and total darkness have always prevented scientists...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press Inc
Language
English
Description
"The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States. The U.S. suddenly went from consisting of 17 states along the Atlantic coast to claiming land as far west as present-day Montana. The U.S. government knew little about the terrain there. Was there a water route to the Pacific? President Thomas Jefferson sent William Clark and Meriwether Lewis to find out. With nothing to guide them but a compass, what would Lewis and Clark...
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