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"Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland...
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Grand Canyon is one of Earth s most recognizable landscapes. Though scientists have studied the canyon for more than 150 years, a definitive answer as to how and when the canyon formed eludes them. The one thing they do agree on is that the canyon was carved by the erosive power of the Colorado river, but the river itself carried away the evidence of its earlier history. Carving Grand Canyon examines the many intriguing ideas and innovative theories...
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Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012 Preston joined a team of scientists using classified...
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Black Shell, a wandering trader and mystic of the Chicaza clan, clashes with Hernando de Soto and other Conquistadors in 1539 during their invasion of south Florida. Guided by a powerful sense of destiny, Black Shell attempts to unite the disparate tribes with his wise and beautiful mate, Pearl Hand, at his side.
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John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition. Here he offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, that will significantly rewrite the story of Powell's famous expedition.
17) Jubal Sackett
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Tells the tale of Jubal Sackett, a restless explorer who crossed the continent of seventeenth-century North America.
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