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Christopher Columbus by Stephen Krensky, Norman Green (Illustrator) List: $3.99 ~ Our Price: $3.19 ~ You Save: $0.80 (20%) Around the World in a Hundred Years : From Henry the Navigator to Magellan ~ Our Price: $13.27 ~ You Save: $5.68 (30%) Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps. Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day; Click on title for order information List Price: $27.50  Our Price: $19.25 A very young Thor Heyerdahl sets out with his new wife for paradise--a natural and unspoiled world that they find, to a degree, in the South Pacific. It was the first of many journeys that would lead to expeditions and explorations, to a vocation, to the testing of theories against the currents of oceans and history, to books that would include Kon Tiki and The Ra Expeditions. This warm, spirited, amusing memoir of Heyerdahl's youth is part love story, part adventure story, part documentary, part sermon, all good read. The Explorer's Handbook : How to Become an Intrepid Voyager ~ Ships in 2-3 days Marilyn Tolhurst / Hardcover / Published 1998 Our Price: $10.49 ~ You Save: $4.50 (30%) Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific ~ Lynne Withey succeeds in providing a balanced and well-researched account of the famous explorations of Captain James Cook in the South Pacific. She discusses the impact of Cook's journeys on both the 18th century Europeans and the native peoples of the South Pacific. Although it has been popular to cast the "Age of Discovery" as a violent and invasive period for indigenous people, Withey shows that Cook generally had the best intentions when dealing with the inhabitants of these islands,

Admiral of the Ocean Sea : A Life of Christopher Columbus American Holocaust : Columbus and the Conquest of the New World ~ Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries The Big Golden Book of Christopher Columbus : And Other Early Adventurers Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries The Big Golden Book of Christopher Columbus : And Other Early Adventurers More Columbus Books The Apotheosis of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking in the Pacific ~ Captain Cook (Explorers) ~ Captain Cook's Endeavour (Anatomy of the Ship) ~ Captain James Cook Captain James Cook : And the Explorers of the Pacific (World Explorers)

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