8.5" X 11"; 80 pages each; full color throughout; library binding
Editor(s)
Alex Woolf; Steven Maddocks
Interest/Age Group
UPPER ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, PUBLIC LIBRARY
No. of Volumes
11
Special Features
178 articles; over 700 illustrations
List Price
US$ 514.21
Discounted Price
US$ 359.95
After
more than two thousand years of exploration across land and sea and into space,
the human urge to explore is as strong as it ever was.
Explorers
and Exploration looks in detail
at the many ways in which the human desire to discover the unknown has shaped
people’s understanding of the larger world and their own place in it. From
historical, geographical, and motivational perspectives, this set profiles the
many explorers who have broken new paths and shaped human
history.
Arrangement
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10 volumes in A–Z
format
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Additional index
volume
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178 articles, color-coded by
historical period
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Over 700 full-color
photographs, diagrams, illustrations, maps, and chronological
displays
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Entries include:
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Topic summary
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Time line
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Feature boxes, including
biographical, technology, and quotation panels
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"See Also"
sections
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Glossary
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Index
Scope
Covering all facets of
exploration, this fact-filled reference focuses on the explorers, their
expeditions, their discoveries, the means of exploration available to them, and
the other men and women who came before or were inspired after. Readers
accompany important explorers of twenty-three centuries as they travel across
the world, under the sea, and into space and as their tools advance from
chronometers to remote sensing devices.
Index
Volume 11 contains:
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Comprehensive
index
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Thematic indexes
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Biographical
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Geographical
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Science and
Technology
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List of maps and index of
their places-names
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Glossary
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Time line of
exploration
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Resources for further
study
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Bibliography
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Places to go
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Internet
resources
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Materials for younger
readers
Benefits
This easy-to-use reference
set, in bringing to life the deeds of the great explorers of the past, keeps the
spirit of exploration alive in readers of the present.
Honor Book Society of School Librarians International, 2005
Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers Booklist, 2005
First Place and Best of Category in the category of School Publishing, Ancillary New York Books Show, 2005
Explorers and Exploration
"The quality of
Explorers and
Exploration is obvious, and any school media center or public
library that can afford it should add it to their
collections." American
Reference Books Annual, 2005
"An effective and
accessible
resource." School Library
Journal, February 2005
*"The scope of explorers
included will allow students to find information on the well-known explorers, as
well as explorers that have not been traditionally covered in depth. ... Highly
Recommended." *STARRED
REVIEW Library Media
Connection, August/September
