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Goodman, Joan E.

Summary: Traces the epic journey of the Portuguese explorer who, five years after Columbus set sail, traveled around the southernmost tip of Africa to find a sea route to India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GAM

Shields, Charles J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAB

Bawlf, R. Samuel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BAW

Jones, Rachel Pieh

Summary: "Somalia's Mother Teresa chose love over fear. Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? "I am nobody," she always insisted. Yet by the time she was killed for her work three decades later she had not only developed an effective cure for tuberculosis among nomadic peoples but also exposed a massacre,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plough Publishing House 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TONELLI, ANNALENA JON

Cummins, John G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRAKE, FRANCIS CUM

Holub, Joan.

Summary: Introduces young readers to the world traveler who wrote about his many experiences while journeying from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who Polo

Demi.

Summary: Describes the life and journeys of the Italian trader who became famous for his travels in Asia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 915.04 DEM

Yates, Brock

Summary: "Genius? Tyrant? Power broker? Enzo Ferrari is the impressively researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari's inner circle and reveals everything, from his early days in the town of Modena to his bizarre relationship with his illegitimate son; from his fanatic passion for speed to his brilliant marketing of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FERRARI, ENZO YAT

Levi, Lia

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: "1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEVI LEV

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEV

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Levi

Phillips, Katrina M.

Summary: "In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 PHI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PHI

Krensky, Stephen

Summary: Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEO

Waxman, Laura Hamilton

Summary: Chronicles the life and career of Juan Ponce de Léon, tracing his travels in the Carribbean and his discoveries of Florida and Puerto Rico.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.92 WAX

Marcovitz, Hal.

Summary: A biography of the Italian traveler who became the first European to cross Asia completely and document his experiences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB POLO MAR

Marcovitz, Hal.

Summary: A biography of the Italian traveler who became the first European to cross Asia completely and document his experiences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POL

Bergreen, Laurence.

1 hold on 2 copies

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POLO, MARCO BER

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld Polo

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.

Summary: Chronicles the life and times of Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure adventurer, salesman, sorcerer, and relentless borrower of others' experiences and achievements who gave his name to the continents of the New World.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 VESPUCCI, AMERIGO FER

Magellan, Marta

Summary: "For Mireya Mayor, even as a young child whose house was filed with cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, a chicken, and a snapping turtle, nothing was quite wild enough. Older, she traded her pom-poms as a cheerleader for the National Football League for the swamps of the South American jungle. The first woman wildlife TV reporter for National Geographic, she traveled the world, but things still weren't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 301.92 MAG

Kallen, Stuart A.

Summary: Uses primary source documents to follow Christopher Columbus on his journeys to the New World.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 970.01 KAL

Thermes, Jennifer

Summary: "The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CRE

Hoelterhoff, Manuela.

Summary: A wickedly funny look at opera today - the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos - and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 HOE

Fenster, J. M. (Julie M.)

Summary: "The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration, sending out waves of expeditions into the West after the Louisiana Purchase. In presiding over that era of discovery, Jefferson forged a great nation"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 FEN

Kallen, Stuart A.

Summary: Uses primary source documents to follow Francisco Vázquez de Coronado on his search for the Seven Cities of Cibola.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.92 KAL

Micklos, John

Summary: "English explorer Henry Hudson had long searched for a quicker, northern sailing route from Europe to Asia. Three previous expeditions had failed. In 1610, he embarked again to find the fabled Northwest Passage. But when icy waters stranded Hudson and the Discovery in a bay for the winter, tensions flared. The crew lost faith in their captain's leadership and began to plot...mutiny! Told...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 MIC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.92 MIC

Davis, Hasan

Summary: "Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery included Captains Lewis and Clark and a crew of 28 men to chart a route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. All the crew but one volunteered for the mission. York, the enslaved man taken on the journey, did not choose to go. Slaves did not have choices. York's contributions to the expedition, however, were invaluable. The captains came to rely on York's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOR

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