Great American Explorer Stories

Great American Explorer Stories

Author: Cheney Gardner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1493035541

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American explorers have played a significant and exciting role in some of the greatest discoveries on Earth. From the exploration of the North American “wild west,” to the discovery of the North Pole, explorers from America are some of our most fascinating and heroic figures in human history. Great American Explorer Stories captures the exploits of great Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt, who made his way through the Brazilian wilderness, Harriet Chalmers Adams, who explored the Andean Highlands, and Captain Joshua Slocum, who sailed alone around the world. Also featured are page-turning accounts from from Hiram Bingham, Lewis and Clark, Nellie Bly, William Beebe, Annie and S. Peck, many others.


Ledyard

Ledyard

Author: Bill Gifford

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780156033053

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Journalist Bill Gifford gives us a life--and follows in the footsteps--of an early American explorer, whose exploits (including walking across all of Russia) and inspired Lewis and Clark.


Barrow's Boys

Barrow's Boys

Author: Fergus Fleming

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9780802137944

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Describes a series of nineteenth-century British expeditions into Africa, the Arctic, and Antarctica, chronicling the adventures of explorers who ventured into some of the most perilous unknown regions of the world.


Exploration and Empire

Exploration and Empire

Author: William H. Goetzmann

Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 9781597404266

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From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from the federal government, gathered information that would support national goals for the new lands. As national needs and the frontier's image changed, the West itself was rediscovered by successive generations of explorers, a process that in turn helped shape its culture. Nineteenth-century western exploration, Goetzmann writes, can be divided into three stages. The first, beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, was marked by the need to collect practical information, such as the locations of the best transportation routes through the wilderness. Then came the era of settlement and investment - the drive to fulfill the Manifest Destiny of a nation beginning to realize what immense riches lay beyond the Mississippi. The final stage involved a search for knowledge of a different kind, as botanists and paleontologists, ethnographers and engineers hunted intensively for scientific information in the "frontier laboratory." This last phase also saw a rethinking of the West's place in the national scheme; it was a time of nascent conservation movements and public policy discussions aboutthe region's future. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Goetzmann offers a masterful overview of the opening of the West, as well as a fascinating study of the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.


Explorers Who Got Lost

Explorers Who Got Lost

Author: Diane Sansevere-Dreher

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1992-10-15

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780812520385

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Examines the adventures of such early explorers of America as Columbus, Dias, and Cabot. Includes information on the events, society, and superstitions of the times.


The Story of Oklahoma

The Story of Oklahoma

Author: W. David Baird

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9780806126500

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Describes the people and events that have shaped the state's history