Highlights some of the greatest blunders in history, covering Ibn Fadlan's journey to Russia on camels to ⁰"Lawnchair Larry⁰", who took a flight in a homemade airship in California.

Explores the history of explorers who traveled to and explored Early America.

Every explorer needs a map! Baba encourages Yasmin to make one of her own. But when Yasmin loses sight of Mama at the farmer's market, can her map bring them back together? Fully translated Spanish text. ¡Todos los exploradores necesitan un mapa! Baba le dice a Yasmin que haga su propio mapa. Pero cuando Yasmin pierde a Mama en el mercado, ¿conseguirá encontrarla con su mapa?

An illustrated retelling of Jules Verne's classic tale in which Professor Von Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...

Examines the history of human exploration of Antarctica and the race between explorers Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen to see who could make it to the South Pole first.

Examines the history of human exploration of the Nile from Roman times to the present.

Introduces different groups of Canadian Aboriginal people from First Nations to the Metis and early explorers including pre-Confederation explorers from France and England, and the Vikings.

Documents the dramatic 1897 flight of a visionary Swedish explorer who attempted to discover the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, describing the formidable environmental conditions that challenged his efforts.

"Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn--Ramsay Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward...