Pathfinders: World Exploration

This fact-filled encyclopedia covers Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Weapons and Warfare, Exploration and Discovery, and Prehistoric Peoples.

Famous Explorers

The stories of adventurers who have set out from their native lands on great journeys of exploration, always in danger and sometimes at the cost of their lives.

A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers, author Gillian Clements places each explorer in the context of his or her own time with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions and technologies which were the springboards for their adventures, and the destinations that captured the world's imagination at that time.

Read the inside story of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World or relive the race to the South Pole. "The History News" presents, in newspaper form, articles, advertisements and interviews, and is illustrated with dramatic pictures and maps of major topics