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The Great Expedition of Lewis and Clark

by Private Reubin Field, Member of the Corps of Discovery

Judith Edwards; Pictures by Sally Wern Comport Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A flavorful account to commemorate its bicentennial In 1803 a young farmer named Reubin Field enlisted for a journey of enormous import. Commissioned by...

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Trade Paperback : $7.95 Buy	What If You Met A Pirate? Jan Adkins, illustrated by the author Roaring Brook Press "You know all about pirates. They were big guys with fancy hats, silk jackets, peg legs, and parrots cursing on their shoulders. They sailed big ships with...

Trade Paperback : $7.95 Buy	Exploration and Discovery Questions and Answers Philip Brooks Kingfisher What was the Northwest Passage?, Who was Marco Polo?, and Who was the first person to climb Mt. Everest?, are among the questions answered in this new addition...

Trade Paperback : $8.99 Buy	The World of Pirates Philip Steele Kingfisher Read about piracy through the ages, from the Caribbean to the South China Seas. Learn about pirate ships flags, and daily life for the crew. What exactly was...

Paper Over Board : $14.95 Buy	My World of Discovery Editors of Kingfisher Kingfisher This fun and interactive first reference book for younger readers includes more than sixty hands-on activities, experiments, and step-by-step illustrations...

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New York Times The North Pole Was Here

Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World

New York Times

Andrew Revkin Kingfisher

The sun never sets, the air is twenty degrees below zero, and the ice is moving at four hundred yards an hour. Welcome to the North Pole. In 2003,...

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I Wonder Why Columbus Crossed the Ocean

and Other Questions About Explorers

I Wonder Why

Rosie Greenwood Kingfisher

Designed to amuse and intrigue young readers, I Wonder Why Columbus Crossed the Ocean and Other Questions About Explorers answers all sorts of questions that...

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Paper Over Board : $12.99 Buy	Kingfisher Knowledge: Pirates & Smugglers Kingfisher Knowledge Moira Butterfield Kingfisher Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas -- from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the...

Trade Paperback : $8.95 Buy	The World of Exploration Philip Wilkinson Kingfisher The World of Exploration is packed full of voyages of discovery and the struggle to survive in the world's wildest places. Readers will thrill to the daring...

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Haunted Histories

Creepy Castles, Dark Dungeons, and Powerful Palaces

J. H. Everett and Marilyn Scott-Waters Henry Holt and Co.

Guided by tween “ghostorian” Virgil, readers will discover fascinating facts about calamitous events throughout history as they explore castles, palaces and...

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Hardcover : $16.99 Buy	CodeQuest: Hieroglyphs Solve the Mystery from Ancient Egypt CodeQuest by Sean Callery Kingfisher CodeQuest is a brand-new narrative non-fiction series that challenges the reader to solve historical mysteries. Each title presents a unique, interactive story...

Hardcover : $24.99 Buy	The Kingfisher Atlas of World History A pictoral guide to the world's people and events, 10000BCE-present Kingfisher Atlas by Simon Adams Kingfisher This paper over board edition combines all four volumes in the series, depicting the world and its people between 10000BCE and the present day. It covers all...

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Book of Bad Things, The

A sinister guide to history's dark side

by Count Droffig, aka Clive Gifford Kingfisher

Our Book of Bad Things is a book about THE Book of Bad Things--a long-rumoured, much feared volume that some people believe has been present at many of the bad...

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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	The Book of Which? Questions by Ray Bryant Kingfisher Drawing on the best-selling I Wonder Why series, this highly collectible question-and-answer series groups information by type of question, and covers a wide...

Paper Over Board : $19.99 Buy	Epic Adventure: Epic Climbs Epic Adventures by John Cleare Kingfisher Nothing is quite so awe inspiring, or inhospitable to humans as the world's tallest mountains. Journey to the European Alps, the Himalaya, the Karakoram...

Paper Over Board : $19.99 Buy	Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages Epic Adventures by Robyn Mundy and Nigel Rigby Kingfisher It takes a certain kind of adventurer to sail off into the unknown of the world's oceans, sailing by the stars, alone in the vastness of a life at sea. Join an...

Paper Over Board : $19.99 Buy	Epic Adventure: Epic Treks Epic Adventures by Betty Hagglund, illustrated by Peter Bull Kingfisher From the earliest times, men and women explored their world. Some searched for trade routes, lost treasures, or new lands to colonize; others traveled as...

Paper Over Board : $19.99 Buy	Epic Adventure: Epic Flights Epic Adventures by Von Hardesty, illustrated by Peter Bull Kingfisher The first people to fly did so in hot-air balloons. Some 120 years later, theWright brothers’ heavier-than-air flying machine made powered, controlled flight...

Paper Over Board : $16.99 Buy	Inca Gold Solve the Mystery of the Golden Corn CodeQuest by Sean Callery Kingfisher CodeQuest is a brand-new narrative nonfiction series that challenges the reader to solve historical mysteries. Each title presents a unique, interactive story...

Paper Over Board : $16.99 Buy	Titanic The search for the lost fugitives by Anita Croy, illustrated by Mick Posen Kingfisher Readers become investigators in this interactive mystery about one of history’s most ill-fated voyages. While looking through documents connected with the...

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In Search of the Grand Canyon

Down the Colorado with John Wesley Powell

Mary Ann Fraser; With illustrations by the author Redfeather Book from Henry Holt

On May 24, 1869, Major John Wesley Powell and his nine-man crew set off to explore the unmapped stretches of the Colorado River. Tracking the day-to-day drama...

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Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Kingfisher Young Discoverer's Encyclopedia of Facts and Experiments Editors of Kingfisher Kingfisher

Hardcover : $14.99 Buy	10 Leaders Who Changed the World by Clive Gifford, illustrated by David Cousens Kingfisher Never has the concept of “six degrees of separation” been more vivid than during the tumultuous events of the 20th century. From Mohandas Gandhi to Joseph...

Hardcover : $14.99 Buy	10 Explorers Who Changed the World by Clive Gifford; illus. by David Cousens Kingfisher Everyone knows who Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus were. But do they know that Christopher Columbus owned a copy of Polo’s book The Travels of Marco Polo,...

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