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Smithsonian library of the solar systemBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLUMBUS CHRISTOPHER BERBergreen, Laurence
Summary: "The central coast of China, 1405. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951 BERBergreen, Laurence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS BERBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: "A middle grade adaptation of Bergreen's adult title of the same name, about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 BERBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: A portrait of the thirteenth-century explorer, adventurer, and global traveler follows Marco Polo from his youth in Venice to his journey to Asia and role in the court of Kublai Khan, to his return to Europe, and discusses his influence on the history of his era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POLO, MARCO BERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld PoloBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: Publisher's description: Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BERSpudis, Paul D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.3 SPUHilldorfer, Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.142 HILContents: Director's preface / Susan Weber Soros -- Foreword / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Introduction / J.M. Atkins -- Maps -- Time line 1895-1945: The Asia Pacific War and its precedents, 1895-1945 / Yumiko Yamamori. -- Part I. Setting the context: Ch.1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.3. Propaganda precedents:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York by Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5488 ATKLutes, Jason.
Summary: In bold graphics, and drawing on the most respected sources, author and artist formulate a living picture of this greatest of Americans and show how time and morals shaped him and his art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LutesStiglitz, Joseph E.
Summary: "A companion to his acclaimed work in Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy, Joseph E. Stiglitz, along with Carter Dougherty and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, lays out the economic framework for a Europe with faster growth that is more equitably shared. Europe is in crisis. Sluggish economic growth in many countries, widespread income stagnation, and recession have led...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.94 STIPorcellino, John.
Summary: This graphic novel, narrated in Thoreau's own words, weaves together elements from Walden, Civil disobedience, Walking and Thoreau's journals to tell of his two years in the woods and the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008