Lives of the explorers : discoveries, disasters (and what the neighbors thought) / written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt.

Author/creator Krull, Kathleen author.
Other author Hewitt, Kathryn, illustrator.
Format Book
PublicationBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Copyright Date©2014
Description96 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents In search of trees : Leif Ericson -- "Only the half of what I saw" : Marco Polo -- Kindness of strangers : Ibn Battuta -- Everyone likes presents : Zheng He -- "Gold is most excellent" : Christopher Columbus -- Flying pigs : Ferdinand Magellan -- The final four years : Henry Hudson -- Eat your sauerkraut : James Cook -- In love with wilderness : Daniel Boone -- Dancing by campfire : Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacajawea -- Thousand and One Nights : Richard Francis Burton -- Gun or no gun? : Isabella Bird -- Body parts on the ceiling : Mary Kingsley -- The kind one : Matthew Henson -- Naming a new land after "Mommie" : Richard E. Byrd -- Up and down : Auguste and Jacques Piccard -- Blast off! : Sally Ride.
Abstract "You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers as both world-changers and real people."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Audience 1050 Lexile
Study program note Accelerated Reader
LCCN 2013037697
ISBN9780152059101 (hardback)
ISBN0152059105 (hardback)

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Joyner TRC Nonfiction 910.922 K9399L ✔ Available Place Hold