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Explorers : Atlas in the round / Charlie Watson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Charlie, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Explorers--Juvenile literature.
- Explorers.
- Discoveries in geography--Juvenile literature.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 34 cm
- Distribution:
- London : Running Press,
- Other Title:
- Atlas in the Round : Explorers
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, 2001
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Great general and explorer
- Pioneering seafarer
- Passage to India
- The travels of Marco Polo
- A Buccaneer's life
- On top of the world
- The New World
- Crossing the new continent
- Northern Territory
- Hernán Cortes, conqueror of Mexico
- Uncharted waters
- Conqueror of the Incas
- Descending the Amazon
- High peaks of the Andes
- Ibn Battuta
- The source of the Nile
- Africa, from coast to coast
- A woman in West Africa
- Continent in the south
- The red country
- The pioneering Dutch
- Going west
- Arctic waters
- The race to the North Pole
- Shackleton and the South Pole
- Center of the southern ice
- First man in space
- Man on the moon.
- Notes:
- "The World's Discoveries As You've Never Seen Them Before"--Cover.
- "Devised and produced by The Ilex Press Ltd., 1 West End, Whittlesford, Cambridge CB2 4 LX, UK"--Title page verso.
- "Art Director: Alastair Campbell. Managing Editor: Kim Yarwood. Project Manager: Elizabeth Wyse. Production Editor: Jamie Brightman. Design Manager: Kevin McGeoghegan. Designer: Michael Leaman. Cover design: Stephen Minns. Maps: Nicholas Rowland, Digital Wisdom Publishing Ltd."--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.
- Running Press copies are "1" printing.
- Running Press copies have white sheets of paper between front and back pastedowns.
- ISBN:
- 0762410361
- 9780762410361
- OCLC:
- 49860273
- Online:
- Publisher description
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