Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan - Hardcover

Fritz, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399225277 ISBN 13: 9780399225277

Verlag: Putnam Pub Group, 1994

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Book by Fritz Jean

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Reseña del editor:

Brings to life the accomplishments of ten extraordinary explorers--including Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, John Cabot, and Ferdinand Magellan--who braved the unknown to discover uncharted lands and to find their way around the world.

Biografía del autor:

Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story inHomesick, My Own Story, a Newbery Honor Book.Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people.Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year,School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice Awards.

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• Verlag: Putnam Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0399225277
• ISBN 13: 9780399225277
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Zeichner: Venti Anthony Bacon