Author: Lorene Lambert
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 097286038X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55

Get Book Here

Book Description
Covers the life of Amerigo Vespucci, from his boyhood in Florence to his days as an explorer for Spain and Portugal.

Author: Lorene Lambert
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1933339357
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
In this audio biography, master storyteller Jim Weiss brings us into the world of Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci's accomplishments include discovering new lands for Spain and Portugal, but they are often eclipsed by those of his famous contemporary Christopher Columbus. The captivating narratives will draw in parents and children alike.

Author: Lorene Lambert
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 1942968132
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Get Book Here

Book Description
Discover the intriguing story of Amerigo Vespucci in this junior-level biography from Peace Hill Press. When Columbus landed on the islands in the Caribbean Sea, he thought he was off the coast of China. A few years later, Amerigo Vespucci sailed west, hoping to find a new route to the East. Instead, he discovered new lands that nobody at home knew about. What did he see? Who did he tell? And why is America named after him? Outstanding illustrations from Jed Mickle complement the fabulous story, giving second-grade readers insight into the life of this discoverer. About the series: The classical curriculum introduces even the youngest student to the pleasures of true learning. Elementary students learn history not through predigested textbooks with multiple-choice answers, but through reading the stories of history. Unfortunately, biographies of great men and women of the past are almost all written for older students, limiting the ability of young students to explore history through reading. Libraries are crammed with biographies written for high school students and adults—while beginning readers are provided with a shelf full of junior-level books about football players, NASCAR drivers, and movie stars. Now, Peace Hill Press puts real history back into the grasp of the youngest historians with the Who in the World Biography Series. The first entries in the series provide young readers and their parents and teachers with biographies of great men and women of the Middle Ages. Designed to be used as part of The Story of the World curriculum, these biographies give beginning historians in grades 2–4 a chance to explore beyond the textbook. An audio version is also available separately.

Author: Jenny Balfour-Paul
Publisher: Medina Publishing
ISBN: 1909339709
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Get Book Here

Book Description
"Set on the edges of time, this intriguing odyssey, part biography, part memoir and part historical detective story, has a magical extra dimension. Tracking Thomas, an elusive young man of the past, the author follows him out of the British Library to the China Seas and remote islands of Polynesia, to Indias plantation lands in the days of the British Raj, and through the deserts of Arabia. Finding she is often in her own footsteps too, can she span what seems an unbridgeable gap between the known and the unknown and solve a mystery? A unique and enthralling love story."--Publisher's website

Author: Robin Phillips
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 0972860398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Get Book Here

Book Description
Covers the life of Theodora, the wife of Justinian, ruler of the Byzantine Empire, from her acrobatic childhood in the Hippodrome to her majestic reign in the Imperial Palace.

Author: Diane Sansevere-Dreher
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812520385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Get Book Here

Book Description
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.

Author: Helen Whybrow
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393326536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Get Book Here

Book Description
There are few thrills as exciting as weather at its worst. We often hear on the news that the day was the hottest, coldest, wettest, or snowiest on record. Is the climate really becoming more extreme as a result of global warming? The facts are in this book. Extensively illustrated with colour photographs of some of the most extreme weather ever captured on camera, more than fifty colour maps, and tables of weather records for over three hundred U.S. cities, this book is both an entertainment and an indispensable reference. Also included are historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed: heat bursts, electrified dust storms, snow rollers, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, falls of fish and toads, ball lightning, super bolts, and other strange meteorological events. Here's the must-have book for Weather Channel and Guinness Book of World Records fans.

Author: Connie Clark
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 0972860371
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Get Book Here

Book Description
The story of how Ethelred II became a boy-king at 10 years old, and how, because of the Vikings, he was the last Anglo-Saxon king of Britain.

Author: Robert Beckham
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 0972860363
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Get Book Here

Book Description
The story of Johannes Gutenberg from his boyhood to his development of movable type and the printing press in Germany in the early 15th century. - Title page verso.

Author: David Grann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847378056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Get Book Here

Book Description
**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** ‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World, by the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration. ‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times ‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’ Daily Telegraph ‘The best story in the world, told perfectly’ Evening Standard ‘A fascinating and brilliant book’ Malcolm Gladwell