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Portrays Hernando de Soto as both a pirate and explorer who, while a failure in some ways, had a lasting influence through such actions as introducing pigs to the Americas.
Over the years the Barbary corsairs were joined by pirates from northern Europe, including Englishmen John Ward (c. 1553– 1622), Sir Francis Verney (1584– ... Spanish galleons In October 1492, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus,.
- Discover the stories behind amazing events that shaped the world My Encyclopedia of Very Important Adventures is part of the educational series My Very Encyclopedia series.
Longman is now a subsidiary of Addison - Wesley , a major player in the public - school textbook market . ... Between these two connections , you now get 20 pages of foreign - language textbooks , workbooks , activity books , and so on ...
... or 'tail', 'spook'); svet ('light', 'world', or 'society'); glukhoi ('deaf', or 'obscure, dark'); pioner ('an explorer', 'trailblazer', or 'colonist', such as an adventurer or pirate who discovers the 'new world', like Columbus, ...
On their return, recognising only his achievement, Frank was inducted into the Explorers Club in 1956; Helen wasn't allowed ... with adventures including facing pirates in Panama and dreadful storms, detailed in their two other books, ...
Collects over sixty poems, tracing the spirit of exploration from ancient to recent times and from Alexander the Great to Sylvia Earle, and includes biographical information about the explorers.
Emily and Matt find that an old sled belonging to Emily's great-aunt has magical properties, enabling them to travel back in time and experience life as Arctic explorers in 1577.
The English victory was due partly to a key participant in the Battle of Gravelines: Sir Francis Drake, one of Queen Elizabeth's most famous sea dogs. He was a cousin of another sea dog, Sir John Hawkins, who got him into the business.
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