Summary: Combining firsthand accounts with original images in vintage black and white and brilliant color, The Explorer's Eye, gives insights into who these men and women were, how they operated, and what they saw. Here you have Alexander von Humboldt braving the electric eels of South Africa, Umberto Nobile lamenting the loss of his Zeppelin in an ice floe, and Jacques Cousteau examining the planet...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 EXP

Slung, Michele B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.82 SLU

Crichton, Michael

Summary: The author recounts his worldwide travels and psychic experiments, beginning with his first year at Harvard Medical School in 1965.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRICHTON, MICHAEL CRI

Bulla, Clyde Robert.

Summary: Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1981

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

Summary: In Hemingway adventure, Michael Palin takes the viewer to locations where Hemingway lived, visited, and wrote about. In Great railway journeys, Palin travels from Londonderry to the western tip of Ireland, following the progression of his family's migration.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEM