Author: S. A. Kramer
Series: Who Was...?
Narrator: Kevin Pariseau
Unabridged: 1 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Published: 03/26/2019
Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - History - Exploration & Discovery
When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life.
Whilst Russia and America race to be the first to conquer space, Vlad the flea and Strelka the dog are more interested in what they can scavenge on the streets of Moscow. Little do they know that they are about to go on an adventure that will take t...
Explains the dramatic story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the unmapped American west. Written in graphic-novel format.
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 Eur...
Learn the story of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León and how he shaped the history of both Florida and Puerto Rico during the Age of Exploration in this new book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series.In the early ...
Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world tod...
Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction audiobook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space!Great explorers have one thing in common ...
Historians still agree about the date of Columbus’s voyage. But did this European adventurer discover America? We now know that certain explorers from other parts of the globe set foot on American shores long before 1492–and that others ...
Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them. They pushed back the frontiers of man’s knowledge of the world by their vision, courage and sheer doggedness. They were very different people &n...
Join the American journalist Henry Morton Stanley on his amazing quest to find David Livingstone, England's most celebrated explorer, in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series!The world was fascinated and concerned. Dr. D...