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Explorers searching for a New World found in South America a continent teeming with life and opportunity. Readers will learn about the exploits of famous explorers such as Francisco Pizarro and Americo Vespucci while full-color photographs show the continent in stunning detail.
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"A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...
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In a rip-roaring journey of peril and adventure, four explorers find a lost prehistoric world in the remote wilds of South America. Huge pterodactyls rule the skies and the jungle beneath is home to lumbering stegosaurus, carnivorous dinosaurs and terrifying ape-men. If the adventurers can survive then fame and fortune almost certainly await them back in London, but in this dangerous land that defies all science and reason who knows what could happen....
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Everyman's library. Travel and topography volume no. 104
Harvard classics volume 29
Great adventures
Great minds
Harvard classics volume 29
Great adventures
Great minds
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This is Charles Darwin's chronicle of his five-year journey, beginning in 1831, around the world as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle.
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What do telescopes, rainforests, earthquake-proof buildings, and lizards all have in common? They have histories in South America, one of Earth's seven continents. Discover the great minds and finds of ancient and modern South America in this learning adventure.
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History) volume 13
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Learn about how North and South America were conquered and settled by the Spanish, Portuguese, French and British between 1600 and 1800.
14) The lost world
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Professor Challenger is an explorer. He went to the Amazon and found the Lost World but no one believed him. Edward Malone writes for a newspaper. He wants to marry Gladys. She wants to marry an adventurer. Edward Malone is sent to meet Professor Challenger.
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Un grupo de hombres, guiados al principio por Gonzalo Pizarro y después por Francisco de Orellana, emprenden una expedición en busca de un soñado bosque de canela. Bajo su mando, los doscientos cincuenta españoles, los cuatro mil indigenas y los dos mil perros de presa, llamas y cerdos que forman parte de la expedición encontrarán increibles parajes, seres nunca vistos y el más caudaloso de los descubrimientos: el rio Amazonas.
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" & Uml;.porque la locura mayor de esta edad del mundo la concibio temprano Pedro de Ursúa: la ambicion desmesurada de conquistar la selva de las Amazonas y dominar la serpiente de agua que la atraviesa·. Quince años despues de viajar con Francisco de Orellana en la búsqueda inútil del País de la Canela, un veterano se suma a la expedicion que Pedro de Ursúa planea para conquistar los pedazos de selva que gobierna pero que conoce solo a traves...
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