Trailblazers Poems of Exploration

Name: Trailblazers Poems of Exploration
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ISBN: 9780688165345

ISBN-10: 0688165346

ISBN-13: 9780688165345

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bobbi Katz, Carin Berger

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Vast seas. Infinite outer space. Endless prairies. Cloud-skimming peaks. The wide, open world. Intrepid explorers cannot ignore the call to adventure, and glory, and knowledge, and freedom. The call to explore. From the Vikings to Lewis and Clark to Sally Ride, discover the spirit of exploration in sixty-two fascinating, vibrant, moving poems.

Book details

List price: $19.89
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

BOBBI KATZ has written many children's books and has had her poetry published in numerous anthologies. She lives in Manhattan and Port Ewen, New York.



The First Explorers


Preface


Orders


My Story


Returning Home


A Letter to Galicia


Summer Sport


A Tale of Two Cities


The Plan of the Mongol Commanders


Can It Be So?


From The Rihla of Ibn Battuta


At the Emperor's Court


Remembering Prince Henry


A Letter to Cristobal Columbus


King Ferdinand's Remarks


What Manner of Men Are These?


With Leoncico at My Golden Sea


Voices Heard on the Way to Tenochtitlan


The Voyage of Magellan diary entries


To Meet the Ransom


Remarks to Sir Francis Drake


A Prayer in Flight


Mutiny: The Ballad of Henry Hudson


Presenting the Case for New France to the Court


The Lady Who Works


The Botanist's Assistant


Overheard on the Endeavor


At Our Trading Post


Notes from A Voyage Round the World


Lullaby for Jean Baptiste


Explaining to Drouillard


Discovery!


The Amazing Surprise


Journal Jottings


I Love My Work


Please, Find Sir John!


A Brief Autobiography


Two Conversations in London


Two Voices Heard on the Dark Continent


The Grand Canyon


The Challenger Expedition


West Africa Notes


Drifting


Butterfly Days: Netting


Advice to a Missionary's Wife


Buena Suerte, Senorita Peck


The Dash to the North Pole


Answering Reporters before Leaving


Two Expeditions on the Way to the South Pole


Voices Heard on the Way South


My Kid Sister, Bessie


Summiting


Dawn at the Cosmodrome


John Glenn, the First American in Orbit


Valentina Teresh...what?


The Landing


On the Space Shuttle Discovery


A Science Mission Specialist


New Explorers


Herakleion: An Underwater City in the Bay of Abukir off the North Coast of Egypt


Sylvia Earle: Deep Ocean Explorer


Imagining the Future


Author's Note


About the Explorers


Bibliography


Index of Titles


Index of First Lines