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As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harriot--whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous to Shakespeare's--took part in the first expedition to colonize Virginia in 1585. Not only was he responsible for getting Ralegh's ships safely to harbor in the New World, he was also the first...

Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism.

Snowcial is based on the true events of Anne and Rory's two-week ice cruise with their parents to the Antarctic Peninsula. Anne and Rory leave home in Australia uneasy with the lack of contact with friends and technology, yet arrive to find unexpected connections on Antarctica's snow-packed shores. As they embark on a special assignment, Anne and Rory address questions and answers that inspire and relate to the mind of the curious adventurer. Snowcial's...

Presents the adventures of Leif the Lucky, son of Erik the Red, who sailed with his father to Greenland and who later sailed farther west and found America.

A very basic introduction to Antarctica and some of the people who first explored it.

Documents a Danish expedition by a team of scientists to hitherto unexplored fjords in northeast Greenland, which, due to the seasonal melting of glacial ice due to global warming, are now accessible for a few weeks a year.

Relates the story of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and gives the history of Columbus Day.