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"Beyond the Pillars of Heracles, first of The Great Explorers Series, deals with the faint traces left by those who first moved from the known world to the unknown and uncharted. From these nameless explorers the book moves on to tell the stories of venturesome men of the ancient world whose names have been remembered and whose adventures and stirring narratives have been recorded." --Back cover.
14) Hernando de Soto
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A biography of the Spanish explorer who became the first European to reach the Mississippi River.
15) James Cook
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The life of the British navigator and explorer whose three famous voyages resulted in the accurate mapping of much of the South Pacific.
18) Richard Burton
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Follows the life and accomplishments of Richard Burton, African explorer, Islamic scholar, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, and translator of "The Arabian Nights."
19) Francis Drake
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Describes the life and adventures of the seaman who was the first Englishman to sail around the world.
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Describes Coronado's explorations in the southwestern United States in the 1540s, an expedition which revealed for the first time to Europeans the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, the Great Plains, herds of buffalo, stark deserts, snow-capped mountain peaks--yet never the gold the Spaniards so avidly desired.
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