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BARRON'S GREAT EXPLORERS SERIES
For ages 10 and up

Between the late-fifteenth and late-eighteenth centuries, European sea captains dramatically changed people's understanding of the world. Each title in Barron's Great Explorers series mixes appealing text, a wealth of full-color illustrations, and attractive sidebar material in an eye-catching magazine-style layout. The books provide young adult readers with vivid descriptions of people, adventures, and achievements of the world's greatest explorers. The books can be used as supplements to social studies texts in middle school and high school courses. Each volume as between 70 and 110 illustrations and, where appropriate, photos of historical artifacts.

. Paperback, 32 pages, 6 11/16" x 9 1/2"

Captain Cook and His Exploration of the Pacific.Cook made three historic voyages between 1768 and 1780, in the process discovering and claiming Australia and New Zealand for the British Empire. He also discovered Hawaii, charted North America's St. Lawrence River, and pioneered advances in the science of ocean navigation. This volume tells Cook's story in words and pictures, and includes maps, scenes showing the peoples and places of explored lands, cross-section illustrations of ships, and photos of instruments and weapons that were used in Cook's era. Note: A modern replica of Captain Cook's ship, The Endeavour, will tour U.S. and Canadian Atlantic ports in 1998, and Pacific ports in 1999, before sailing to Australia for the Olympic Games in the year 2000. This volume gives North American readers a preview of that fascinating ship. Cat.#BAR-05337 / $5.36-D

Columbus and the Renaissance Explorers b
y Colin Hynson, Barron's Educational. .Probably the most famous of all sea explorers, Christopher Columbus made four voyages of discovery in America for Spain between 1492 and 1504. His was the first European exploration party to discover the Americas and make them a part of the European colonial empire. This volume recounts these adventures with maps and illustrations that depict Columbus's origins in Genoa, his important connections with the Spanish Court of Ferdinand and Isabella, reconstructed models of his ships, and the American territories that he explored and helped to settle.
Cat. #BAR-0502 / $5.36-D

Drake and the 16th Century Explorers by John Guy. Sir Francis Drake was the first of Britain's great sea explorers, and his achievements and land claims around the globe marked the beginning of British dominance as a world empire. Illustrations in this book include that of a three-masted, square-rigged ship of a design similar to Drake's historic Golden Hind, maps showing the route of his circumnavigation of the earth during the 1577-80 voyage, and depictions of his battles with enemy Spanish forces. Cat.#BAR-05329 / $5.36-D

Exploration of Africa by Colin Hynson. Here is the story of the famous Stanley and Livingstone and a host of other great explorers of the African continent. Cat.#BAR-06325 / $5.36-D

Exploration of North America. From Columbus to Lewis and Clark, the exploits of the great explorers are described in this volume. Cat.#BAR-06341 / $5.36-D

Magellan and the Exploration of South America. One of the great ocean explorers and empire builders for the kingdom of Spain, Ferdinand Magellan captained the first sea voyage to sail around the world. He was appointed leader of the expedition in 1518, but was killed by Philippine Island natives in 1522 during the course of that exploration. Illustrations in this book include reproductions of maps, historic scenes, ships, weapons, and much more. (Cat.#BAR-05310 / $5.36-D

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