Exploration

Westward Expansion

Uses primary source materials, including letters and magazine articles of the time, to examine the exploration and conquest of the American West by explorers and settlers of European descent.

Exploration, Frontier and pioneer life, Government relations, Grade 11: Westward Expansion, History

978
WES

Eighteen essays examine political and cultural aspects of the settlement of the American frontier, discussing such topics as Manifest Destiny and war, the California Gold Rush, the transcontinental ra

Exploration, Frontier and pioneer life, Grade 11: Westward Expansion, History, Territorial expansion

978
AME

Space

Robin Kerrod

Describes the history and development of space stations and the exploration of our solar system, as well as the possibility of some day settling on the moon and traveling to Mars.

Exploration, Outer space

919.904
KER

Jacques Cartier

Meg Greene

Describes the life and travels of Jacques Cartier, the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China.

0-1763 (New France), 1491-1557, Biography, Canada, Cartier, Jacques

92
CAR

Samuel De Champlain

Josepha Sherman

Describes the life, explorations and voyages of Samuel de Champlain, the Father of New France.

1567-1635, Biography, Champlain, Samuel de, Exploration, Explorers

92
CHA

Exploration and Settlement

Richard Steins

This book recounts the stories of the French, English, and Dutch in the New World, their reasons for settlement, and their relations with the native Americans.

America, Exploration

970.01
Ste