Explore with Mary Kingsley [Travel with the great explorers]by Cooke, Tim 

BTSB Prebound(Crabtree, 2018)

BTSB #: 236498 Available

Dewey: 916.604/BAges: 8-11   
Lexile: 910

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Subjects: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta,|d1862-1900 Explorers - West Africa - Biography Explorers - Great Britain - Biography Women explorers - West Africa - Biography Women explorers - Great Britain - Biography West Africa - Exploration - British

Summary: The important travels and writings of English explorer Mary Kingsley helped develop the British public's knowledge about the African continent.

Who was Ernest Shackleton? [Who Was?]by Buckley, James 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2013)

BTSB #: 166495 Available

Dewey: 919.89/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 4.7 3-5 Lexile: 770 F&P: V

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Subjects: Shackleton, Ernest Henry, - Sir,|d1874-1922 Explorers - Great Britain - Biography Sailors - Biography Survival skills Antarctica - Exploration

Summary: As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie.