EXPLORATION
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Geographers
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CALENDARS

1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendars
Travel Calendar

Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendars
Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendar

Destinations
Destinations Calendar




BOOKS ABOUT EXPLORERS

Around the World in a Hundred Years
Around the World
in a Hundred Years:
From Henry the Navigator
to Magellan


Nat'l Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers
Nat'l Geographic
World Atlas
for Young Explorers


Women of Discovery
Women of Discovery:
A Celebration of
Intrepid Women Who
Explored the World


As Told at the Explorers Club
As Told at
the Explorers Club:
More than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure


Explorers South America
Explorers of
South America


Nat'l Geographic's Beyond 2000
Nat'l Geographic's
Beyond 2000
VHS




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “S...-”
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.


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Explorers ~

Robert de LaSalle
Robert Falcon Scott

Frederick Selous
Ernest Shackleton

Joshua Slocum


Rene-Robert Cavelier de la Salle French Explorer, Giclee Print
Rene-Robert Cavelier
Sieur de La Salle,
French Explorer,
Giclee Print

Robert de LaSalle
b. 11-22-1643; Rouen, France
d. 3-19-1687; murdered by expedition mutineers in present day Texas

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle (Robert de LaSalle) was a French explorer of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle was the first European to sail on the Great Lakes with a ship named Le Griffon and he claimed the entire Mississippi basin for France naming it La Louisiane in honour of Louis XIV and his wife Anne.

FYI ~ Father Louis Hennepin was part of de LaSalle's expedition of the Great Lakes region.

The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of LaSalle


Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic Explorer, Giclee Print
Robert Falcon Scott,
Antarctic Explorer,
Giclee Print

Robert F. Scott
b. 6-6-1868; Plymouth, England
d. 3-29-1912; Ross Ice Shelf, Anarctica

Robert Falcon Scott, a Royal Naval Officer, was the second to reach the South Pole after Roald Amundsen.

Scott and his companions perished on the trip back to their base camp. Among the remains of the expedition was a specimen of coal that had been requested by palaeobotanist Maria Carmichael Stopes.

Scott in Historic Headlines posters
Journals: Scott's Last Expedition


Frederick Selous, Traveller and Hunter in Africa, Giclee Print
Frederick Selous,
Traveller and Hunter
in Africa,
Giclee Print

Frederick Selous
b. 12-31-1851; London, England
d. 1-4-1917; East Africa, by German sniper

Frederick Selous, British explorer, hunter, and conservationist, was famous for his exploits in Southern Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was also a good friend of Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Russell Burnham.

A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa: Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa


Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antartic Explorer, Photographic Print
Ernest Shackleton,
Irish Antartic Explorer, Photographic Print

Ernest Shackleton
b. 2-15-1874; Kilkea, Ireland
d. 1-5-1922; aboard the "Quest"

Ernest Shackleton attempted to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea, south of the Atlantic, to the Ross Sea, south of the Pacific, by way of the South Pole.

South: The Endurance Expedition


The Boat Which Joshua Slocum Rebuilt and Sailed Single- Handed Round the World 1895-1896, Giclee Print
Spray - The Boat Which
Joshua Slocum Rebuilt and Sailed Single-Handed Round
the World 1895-1896,
Giclee Print

Joshua Slocum
b. 2-20-1844; Nova Scotia
d. 11-14-1909; aboard the "Spray" while sailing to the Orinoco River

Joshua Slocum, a Canadian-American adventurer and sea captain, was the first person to circumnavigate the Earth solo in a sailboat. His exploits and life are inspirational and he has been honored by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution by naming a autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Spray after his boat.

Sailing Alone Around the World and The Voyage of the Libredade


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