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Bellows, Amanda Brickell,
author.
The explorers :
a new history of America in ten expeditions /
Amanda Bellows.
First edition.
New York, NY :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2024]
384 pages :
map ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sacagawea: the navigator -- James Beckwourth: the mountain man -- Laura Ingalls Wilder: the homesteader -- John Muir: the preservationist -- Florence Merriam Bailey: the conservationist -- William Sheppard: the missionary -- Harriet Chalmers Adams: the geographer -- Matthew Henson: the Arctic explorer -- Amelia Earhart: the aviator -- Sally Ride: the astronaut -- The future of American exploration.
"A ... history of America told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary--and often overlooked--adventurers, from Sacagawea to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny"--
Provided by publisher.
20240604.
Adventure and adventurers
Biography
United States.
Women adventurers
United States
Biography.
Explorers
Biography
United States.
Women explorers
United States
Biography.
United States
Discovery and exploration.
Biographies.
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