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...Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown Sea of Darkness where it was thought monsters and angry gods lived. They dared to sail near the equator which was thought to have such intense heat that it would boil the ocean water. ...

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... laughed a sadistic laugh, “Monstrosity? This is the ut- most beauty. When explorers found the Mayan ruins, they did not 121 7 Scorpions: Rebellion ...

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... 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containing many excerpts from the diaries and accounts of the explorers, this book was published the year after the expedition met its disastrous end. More information at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition Burke and Wills Expedition . (description written...

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...Early explorers were followed by prospectors and miners. Settlers who saw the possibilities for agriculture and ranching in the region were not far behind them. The Ash Meadows area, a true desert oasis, was the home of many people...

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...in fact comparatively modern, compiled as late as the 16 th century, when explorers were beginning to discover that the globe upon which we all liv...

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...there are signs that diseases hitherto thought to have been introduced by the white explorers were actually indigenous.1,000-year-old Peruvian mummi... ...white flower; they said these were hailstones given to the god of water." French explorers in the early 17th century reported that the Iroquois I...

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...Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlement of humans who have managed to maintain their civilisation despite ferocious cannibal neighbours, the Scowrers. However, the explore...

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...zen north including their meetings with Eskimos and bears and their struggles with disease. This is a realistic account of what life was like for the explorers of the Arctic. (summary by Esther, adapted from wikipedia)...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage pe...

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... ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABL... ...th's extraordinary beard -- Frobisher's strange discoveries -- A fight between explorers -- The loss of Sir Humphrey Gilbert -- Disappointment of John... ...ng for a copper mine -- Cook and Clerk e -- Effects of the Revolution -- Other explorers in the north -- Discoveries of Parry and Franklin -- Last voy... ...Captains who have reached the North Pole -- Latitudes reached by famous Arctic explorers -- The overland journey of Schwatka 521- 528 CHAPTER LII. Voy... ...introduced herein histories of the most fearless navigators, the most intrepid explorers, and the most valorous adventurers in virgin fields, of which... ...possible in a two weeks' sail from Ireland. The reckoning of time by the early explorers was not always exact, and it is probable that the voyage west... ... effects of the terrifying beliefs which operated to the great disadvantage of explorers on the high seas, and to show how fearless and reckless must ... ... of unknown territory, and in the face of his edict the former power sent out explorers without so much as a consultation with his holiness. France a... ...F THE BARBAROUS VOYAGERS. It is a curious historical fact that among the early explorers there were few, particularly of the Spanish and Portuguese, w...

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...ure that through reading these stories children and adults will grow a bit in understanding and appreciation of the civilization here before European explorers reached our shores....

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...t of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished scholars. V... ...er known in their days of absorption in college. They were distin- guished explorers, and they remarked, in great mutual esteem, “I bet Harry Haydock’... ...e Avenue, with but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fictional explorers and aviators. Her days were swift, and she knew that in her folly...

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...rille, who had seen service in South Africa, who had travelled and hunted; explorers, keen mo- torists, interested in aviation, active in army organis...

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..., on August 20, a horrible sight presented it- self to the eyes of the two explorers when they walked inland with about eighteen most obliging and cou... ...ding of what they were destined to become to that small party of Christian explorers. Young Atkin made no entry in his diary of those days, and could ...

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...there was something so indelible in all these ancestral Goulds—liberators, explorers, coffee planters, merchants, revolutionists—of 48 Nostromo Costa...

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...s after the events that took place in The Lost World ( /the-lost-world-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/ ), Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-receive...

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...t is still a continent to be discovered. Reich and Lowen are two important explorers of this unknown world. The Corporeal I is usually treated like ...

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...This is Volume 18 in the Chronicles of Canada series. The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewa...

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...ve done. Here, in the illustra- tion, is such an archipelago ready for its explorers, or rather on the verge of exploration. There are altogether four...

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... true. It concerned all manner of out of the way mountain principalities, explorers of nationali ties other than English, and the guntrade was, in ... ...hold!’ He drew from his breast a bottle of cheap whisky–such as is sold to explorers at Leh–and cleverly forced a little be tween the lama’s teeth. ‘...

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...ur of the Voice. So much by way of portraiture is necessary to present the explorers of the Modern Utopia, which will unfold itself as a background to... ...ly a matter for his doctor and his own private con- science. I doubt if we explorers shall meet any drunken men, and I doubt not we shall meet many wh...