Scientific Explorers: Travels in Search of Knowledge

by Rebecca Stefoff

Scientific Explorers looks at scientific explorations on land, at sea, and in space--Captain James Cook's astronomical observations, the Great U.S. Exploring Expedition of the 1830s, the mapping expeditions and geological surveys of the American West by Fremont and others, and many more exciting and dramatic discoveries--by James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Charles Darwin, Alvin, Jacques Cousteau, and others--that have changed the way we view the world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195076893
• ISBN13: 9780195076899
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9