When Jacques Cartier sailed into the St. Lawrence River in what is now Canada, he believed that he might have found a passage through North America to the China Sea. He went back two more times to try to prove the existence of the Northwest Passage, but he had to abandon both journeys before he could finish them. His dream, however, inspired others to keep looking.
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The heartwarming true story of a loyal Skye Terrier.
Greyfriars Bobby
By: Eleanor Atkinson$14.95 – $30.95 -
This book, written in graphic novel format, tells the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.Sku: 9780736852456
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
By: Michael J. Martin$10.95 -
Best-selling author Jeanne Bendick takes us for another informative—and amusing—journey into places and events of long ago. Herodotus and the Road to History, written in the first person, details the investigative journeys of Herodotus—a contemporary of the Old Testament prophet Malachi—as he takes ship from Greece and voyages to the limits of his own ancient world. His persistence, amidst disbelief and ridicule, in the self-appointed task of recording his discoveries as “histories” (the Greek word meaning “inquiry”), means that today we can still follow his expeditions into the wonder and mystery of Syria, Persia, Egypt and the “barbaric” north. Jeanne Bendick's lucid text, humorous illustrations and helpful maps entertain and instruct as they open the way for readers young and old to once again join Herodotus . . . on the road to history. Illustrated by the author.Sku: 9781932350203
Herodotus and the Road to History
By: Jeanne Bendick$18.90 -
Over sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children’s books. Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love.
How the Heather Looks
By: Joan Bodger$27.50 – $33.95 -
This popular book in the If You series answers a variety of questions about Pilgrim life--both on the ship and on shore--helping readers understand what it was like to have lived at that time.Sku: 9780590451611
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620
By: Ann McGovern, Anna DiVito$12.50 -
This book is a compilation of every President’s first speech.
Inaugural Speeches
By: Various$23.95 – $38.50 -
Captain Bruff was the charismatic leader of a company of men who were marching west to the gold fields of California. He led with determination and authority, and he expected his men to conduct themselves as soldiers.Sku: 9780898248692
J. Goldsborough Bruff Fights His Way West
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$19.50 -
Americans weren’t the only ones who wanted to go to California to find gold. Scotsman J.D. Borthwick went there too, paintbrush in hand, for he was an artist.Sku: 9780880928694
J.D. Borthwick Finds Gold with a Paintbrush
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$15.95 -
Sku: 9780880929103
Jacques Cartier Explores Lands for France (Dyslexic Font)
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$13.50 -
Jim Cook was still young and foolish when he went on his first cattle drive from Texas to the railroad in Kansas, and he caused a stampede that resulted in a loss of 500 cattle.Sku: 9780898247183
James Cook: Greenhorn on the Chisholm
By: Royal Fireworks Press$19.50 -
James Hobbs was a foolish sixteen-year-old boy when, while out on a trading journey with a group of traders who were traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, he and another boy left the wagon train to chase a buffalo.Sku: 9780898249408
James Hobbs’s Long Journey
By: Royal Fireworks Press Publication$13.50 -
In 1826, Jedediah Smith decided to lead a group of men southwest from Utah to search for the Buenaventura River, the mythical river that appeared on old Spanish maps but that no one had been able to find. The group made it to California without seeing the river, so Jed and two of his men went out again, heading east over the mountains and the desert. It was a treacherous journey, but Jed would not give up.Sku: 9780880929189
Jed Smith and the Search for the Buenaventura (Dyslexic Font)
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$13.50 -
The Airplane that Taught America to Fly. Barely 40 years separate the Wright brothers' flight and those of the first jet aircraft. The World War II pilots who were the first to fly those jets and who would later become the first airline pilots, learned to fly in little cloth and wooden biplanes, the aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s.Sku: 979888818066236
Jenny
By: David Weitzman$20.50 -
When Hugh Glass was brutally attacked by a grizzly, his good friend Jim was deeply saddened, and he was one of two men who chose to stay with the old mountain man until he died so that they could bury his body.Sku: 9780898249415
Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
By: Royal Fireworks Press Publication$13.50 -
Trappers in the early 1800s worked in parts of the West that were still unmapped. Jim Bridger was out trapping with a fur company when he was chosen by the company owner to follow a river to see where it led. To Jim’s delight, it led straight to a salty body of water. Had he just found the river to the Pacific Ocean that explorers had been searching for throughout the centuries since North America was discovered?Sku: 9780898249187
Jim Bridger’s Sea of Salt (Dyslexic Font)
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication$13.50 -
No one had taken a wagon train all the way to California when John Bidwell decided to do it.Sku: 9780898249439
John Bidwell’s Wagon Trip to California
By: Royal Fireworks Press Publication$15.95