Discovery: Exploration Through the Centuries
- ISBN-10
- 0831723815
- ISBN-13
- 9780831723811
- Series
- Discovery
- Category
- Adventure and adventurers
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Smithmark Publishers
- Author
- Eric Flaum
Description
Retells major exploratory achievements, beginning with the discovery of Australia through the North and South Poles, in words and pictures.
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