Voyages that changed the world.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Quercus Publishing, 2007.Description: 208 pISBN:- 1-84724-146-8
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Hardcover | Beverly Middle School | 920 AUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 603810 |
Includes the journeys of Bartholomew Dias and Vasco da Gama, the discoveries of America, the first circumnavigation of the globe, Francis Drake's adventures, the story of the real Robinson Crusoe, the voyage of the Mayflower, Captain Cook's charting of the Pacific, Charles Darwin's epiphany aboard the Beagle, Brunel's race to cross the Atlantic, and Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton journeying to the ends of the earth.