Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington, team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar and the source of the antimatter used to destroy the antiquities branch of a London museum.
Provides an account of the voyage undertaken by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the "Endurance" in 1914-15, telling how the men survived after their ship became locked inside an island of ice and drifted for ten months before being crushed.
The government of Comity enlists the help of artist Chendor Carna, historian Liam Fitzhugh, shuttle pilot Jiendra Chang, and assassin Goodman Bond to journey to the uninhabited world, Danann, in order to bring back artifacts connected to their once advanced civilization.
Relates information about the Tunguska meteorite that landed in Russia in 1908, focusing on past and present scientists and their research expeditions to the sight of the landing.
Discusses the history of scientific exploration with special emphasis on the discoveries of Captain James Cook, Charles Darwin, and Alexander von Humboldt.
Examines past and present scientific study of the Arctic, describing what life is like for scientists staying there and explaining how and what they study.
the enlightenment expedition that reshaped our world
Ferreiro, Larrie D
2011
Describes the Geodesic Mission to the Equator--the first international, cooperative scientific expedition to determine the shape of the earth in the eighteenth century. Discusses the characters present, the challenges they faced, and the military and economic stakes involved.
A photo-filled chronicle of great expeditions and exploits under the sea, on land, in the air, and into space; describes the exploits of such figures as Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Edmund Hillary, and Robert Falcon Scott.
Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington, team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar and the source of the antimatter used to destroy the antiquities branch of a London museum.
