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Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Tim Cooke
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433986272
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Explorers searching for a “New World” found a continent teeming with life and opportunity. Readers will learn how humanity pushed to the edges of the Earth in the quest for knowledge. They will also learn about the exploits of famous explorers such as Francisco Pizarro and Americo Vespucci while full-color photographs show the continent in stunning detail. Fact boxes add depth to every expedition and journey, while glossary terms and further information give readers an in-depth examination of this exciting topic.

Author: Edward Julius Goodman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging research and lifelong interest in exploration into a comprehensive, scholarly history. A reprint of the original 1972 edition, the tales have lost none of their luster.

Author: John Paul Zronik
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778724117
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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A biography of Francisco Pizarro, an explorer who conquered a gold-rich empire that enriched Spain for decades.

Author: Heather Moore Niver
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477787968
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Amerigo Vespucci, the presumed namesake of the continents of North America and South America, is a controversial figure in the history of European exploration. The number of voyages he took to the New World is in dispute, but among his accomplishments, he found a rough method of calculating longitude, made notes on the indigenous peoples he encountered, and published theories proving that Columbus had not landed in India. This volume separates the fact from fiction, the man from the myth, and sets about to responsibly examine the remaining open questions at the heart of this history of New World exploration.

Author: Sandra J. Kachurek
Publisher: Enslow Elementary
ISBN: 9780766021785
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Who conquered the Inca and opened South America up for Spanish exploration? Francisco Pizarro did. Pizarro first heard about the Inca and their treasure while he was exploring with another famous man -- Vasco Nunez de Balboa. Read about how Pizarro searched for years before finding Peru and the Inca. In Francisco Pizarro: Explorer of South America, author Sandra J. Kachurek discusses the life and times of Pizarro and his explorations in South America. Book jacket.

Author: Brendan J. F. Thiessen
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543771424
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Jumping from moving trains, drinking and dancing till the dawn, and exploring the land and culture of the Incan people, while documenting various people from across the globe that he met along the way, The SOUTH AMERICAN EXPLORERS CLUB is a stellar read. A celebration of youth and the uncertainty of the future. This book encompasses long distance trekking in the Peruvian Andes, exploring ancient Incan ruins, the lost funerary burial pits of the Nazca culture, camping in the lake district of southern Chile, the kinship of other travelers, and the joys and hardships that go along with and are intrinsic to long term travel.

Author: Hiram Bingham
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Across South America" (An account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru) by Hiram Bingham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Andrea Wulf
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524747378
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, but his most revolutionary idea was a radical vision of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. His theories and ideas were profoundly influenced by a five-year exploration of South America. Now Andrea Wulf partners with artist Lillian Melcher to bring this daring expedition to life, complete with excerpts from Humboldt's own diaries, atlases, and publications. She gives us an intimate portrait of the man who predicted human-induced climate change, fashioned poetic narrative out of scientific observation, and influenced iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, and John Muir. This gorgeous account of the expedition not only shows how Humboldt honed his groundbreaking understanding of the natural world but also illuminates the man and his passions.

Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826350633
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First published in 1555, Cabeza de Vaca's narrative of his South American expeditions is a detailed account of his five years as governor of Spain's province of the Rio de la Plata in South America. Cabeza de Vaca was already a celebrated explorer by the time he went to La Plata, known for his great trek across North America in the 1520s and 1530s and for the Relación he wrote about that journey. His tales of his river and forest explorations in South America show that he had lost none of his early curiosity and drive. He was the great secular champion of the native peoples of the New World and the only Spaniard to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents. This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow's new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time.