exploration

The author relates some of her adventures studying and exploring the world's oceans, including tracking whales, living in an underwater laboratory, and helping to design a deep water submarine.

Describes the Lewis and Clark Expedition across America, emphasizing the enormous adventure and technological challenges encountered.

Traces the Norwegian explorer's life and adventures through the Northwest Passage to the South Pole.

Twelve men and women who work in the field of science discuss and explain their occupations, including what they might do in a normal working day and the scariest thing that ever happened to them.

An account of the Challenger explosion.

Presents a biography of the Portuguese navigator who commanded the first expedition to sail around the world.

Describes the Wright brothers' lifelong involvement with powered flight and their successful development of the first airplane.

Text and photographic illustrations describe the explorations of Ferdinand Magellan and Vasco da Gama in the sixteenth century which led to the establishment of Spanish and Portuguese empires around the world.

Highlights various explorers and their discoveries.