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"A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. Yearning for wider horizons, American geologist Jakob de Beyn joins a rival...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As her own marriage falters, Julia discovers papers and artifacts related to her great-grand-uncle's Arctic expedition and subsequent disappearance--as well as his relationship with his wife--and makes a shocking discovery that shatters her long-held image of the couple's romance.
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Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Professor Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
8) Black ice
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Having made a discovery of significance beneath the Antarctic ice cap, scientist Lauren Burgess rescues two explorers trapped on the ice only to find her science team targeted by one of the explorers, who has gone mad from isolation.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.
10) Captured by love
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On occupied Mackinac Island, Voyageur Pierre Durant and local girl Angelique Labelle must decide where their loyalties lie, and what they will risk for love"--
Author
Series
London explorers volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Seth Mayhew is the ideal explorer: fearless, profitable, and unmarried. There is nothing and no one he can't find--until his sister disappears en route to India. His search for her takes him to Bombay, where Seth meets the most unlikely of allies--a vulnerable woman who's about to marry the wrong man. --Publisher
12) Journey to Juno
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the planet Nebulon in 2120, Zack joins his school's Explorer's Club and visits Juno, a planet made of crystals, but he is less than thrilled when he is partnered with the class bully.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest ... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It...
15) Eversion
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Silas Coade tries to keep his crew safe while figuring out why maritime disasters keep happening to him in different centuries in a time and space adventure from the author of Revelation Space.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In "Where Did You Go, Charlie Brown?," America's beloved Peanuts gang learns about America's great explorers--a few of whom will be a surprise to parents as well! Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy and pals for a journey about exploration and discovery that will inspire adventurers everywhere!
Author
Series
Courtney volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Tom Courtney, one of four sons of master mariner Sir Hal Courtney, once again sets sail on a treacherous journey that will take him across the vast reaches of the ocean and pit him against dangerous enemies in exotic destinations. But just as the winds propel his sails, passion drives his heart. Turning his ship towards the unknown, Tom Courtney will ultimately find his destiny--and lay the future for the Courtney family.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account based on the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Ocean seeks to convey what was happening in the minds of the explorers and to bring life to the collision of white and Native American cultures of the period.
19) Neptune
Author
Series
Outer planets volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets-- billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia-- are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago Ilona Magyr's father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead: crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune's turbulent seas. With legendary...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home--hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father's obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a thousand-pound reward for proof of where Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to use her father's papers to unravel the secret. But when Evie sets out to prove...
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