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CALENDARS

1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendars
Travel Calendar

Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendars
Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendar

Destinations
Destinations Calendar




BOOKS ABOUT EXPLORERS

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


Nat'l Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers
Nat'l Geographic
World Atlas
for Young Explorers


Women of Discovery
Women of Discovery:
A Celebration of
Intrepid Women Who
Explored the World


As Told at the Explorers Club
As Told at
the Explorers Club:
More than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure


Explorers South America
Explorers of
South America


Nat'l Geographic's Beyond 2000
Nat'l Geographic's
Beyond 2000
VHS




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “V...-”
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Explorers ~

Armin Vambery
George Vancouver

Ludovico di Varthema
Giovanni da Verrazano

Amerigo Vespucci
Sebastian Vizcaino


Armin Vambery Hungarian Traveller Explores Asia, Giclee Print
Armin Vambery
Hungarian Traveller
Explores Asia,
Giclee Print

Armin Vambery
b. 3-19-1832; Szentgyorgy, Kingdom of Hungary
d. 9-15-1913; Budapest

Armin Vambery, an Hungarian orientalist and traveler whose talent with languages allowed him to venture into Asia, gathered information not available to foreigners.

The Life and Adventures of Arminius Vambéry: Written by Himself.


George Vancouver, Giclee Print
George Vancouver, Giclee Print

George Vancouver
b. 6-22-1757; King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
d. 5-10-1798; Petersham, Surrey, England

Captain George Vancouver is best remembered for his 1791-1795 expedition which charted the northwestern Pacific Coast regions of North America: Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. His accurate maps served coastal navigation for years, and he determined that there was no Northwest Passage at surmissed latitudes.

Vancouver did not locate the Columbia River, the Fraser River, or the Skeena River.

Vancouver also explored the southwest coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.


The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia...
The Travels of
Ludovico di Varthema
in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, Persia, India, and Ethiopia...

Ludovico di Varthema
b. c. 1470; Bologna, Italy
d. 1517; Italy

Ludovico di Varthema is known as the first European to enter Mecca as a pilgrim on the Hajj.

On his journey he visited Alexandria, Cairo, Beirut, Tripoli, Aleppo, Damascus, Jeddah, Calicut, Shiraz, Ceylon, Burma, Borneo, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the Azores, Lisbon and Rome.


Giovanni Da Verrazano, Giclee Print
Giovanni da Verrazano,
Giclee Print

Giovanni da Verrazano
b. c. 1485; Tuscany
d. c. 1528; on third voyage to New World

The Italian navigator Giovanni Verrazano was the first European to explore the North American coast between present day South Carolina and Newfoundland (1524), more than eighty years before Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage into New York Harbor.

The bridge crossing the “narrows”, a tidal strait connecting the upper and lower sections of the New York Bay, is named for Verrazzano. Verrazano also influences the name of Rhode Island by describing an island “in the form of a triangle, distant from the mainland ten leagues, about the bigness of the Island of Rhodes”, thus the first part of state's name.

FYI ~ In 1524 explorer Giovanni da Verrazano was the first European to see Mount Washington, from the waters off New Hampshire's seacoast.


Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci, Giclee Print
Portrait of
Amerigo Vespucci,
Giclee Print

Amerigo Vespucci
b. 3-9-1454; Florence, Italy
d. 2-22-1512; Seville, Spain (malaria)

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer whose published letters describing his observations to his employers, the Medici, is how the European public learned about the newly discovered Americas for the first time.

Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America


Exploration of the California Coast
Exploration of the
California Coast

Sebastian Vizcaino
b. 1548; Extremadura, Spain
d. c. 1624; Mexico City, New Spain

Sebastian Vizcaino was a conquistador and merchant who traveled to Mexico (New Spain), the Philippines, Baja and coastal California. He named San Diego Bay, Point Lobos, Monterey Bay, Santa Barbara and Catalina Island.

Vizcaino was one of the galleon Santa Ana crew put to shore by privateer Thomas Cavendish in October of 1587.


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