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Explorers and Travellers (Book)
Author: Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935
Title: Explorers and Travellers
Contents: Louis Joliet, re-discoverer of the Mississippi -- Peter Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville, founder of Louisiana -- Jonathan Carver, the explorer of Minnesota -- Captain Robert Gray, the discoverer of the Columbia river -- Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieut. William Clark, first trans-continental explorers of the United States -- Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer of the sources of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers -- Charles Wilkes, the discoverer of the Antartic continent -- John Charles Frémont, the pathfinder -- Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer -- Isaac Israel Hayes, and the open Polar Sea -- Charles Francis Hall, and the North Pole -- George Washington De Long, and the Siberian Arctic Ocean -- Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, discoverer of the dwarfs and gorillas -- Stanley Africanus and the Congo Free State.
Language: English
LoC Class: G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
Subject: Explorers
Subject: Travelers
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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