North West Exploration

The frozen wilderness of the Arctic captivated and mystified voyagers and explorers in the 1800s, driven by greed for riches, fame, and the search for the elusive Northwest Passage. Delve into the jaw-dropping courage and awe-inspiring expeditions from the Golden Age of Arctic exploration with "Frozen Frontier" Follow the footsteps of heroic explorers and their courageous penetrations into an unknown world of mammoth ice floes, terrifying polar bears, and bone-chilling cold. Witness their incredible triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies, and discover the untold stories of the earliest ...

Arriving in a rain-swept city after a solo bus journey, eighteen-year-old Talia's world breaks wide open. Soon she is chasing chickens, telling bad jokes to a prospective boss, fielding a roommate's insults about her décor, all the while homesick for a place that never existed. Funny, harsh, touching, and uniquely observant, Talia speaks to the reader as if to a best friend. In a chance encounter Talia meets George, a young man whose passion for building sailboats sparks a conversation that leads to much more. When a sailing job takes George away to Mexico, Talia struggles with ghosts from...

In the spring of 1841, a lonely worker in Washington's Dead Letter Office encounters a package that prompts him to quit his job and travel into the western wilderness in search of a woman he’s never met, to claim land he doesn’t own, using a name that isn’t his. There he discovers danger and opportunity, the beauty and corruption of the frontier, and the darkness of his own heart. Striving for redemption, he encounters Indian agents and displaced tribes, escaping slaves, and new immigrants come, like him, to find their fortunes in the promised land of America. From the debauchery of ...

In May 1845, Sir John Franklin, commander of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England to seek a navigable route across the top of the Americas. He and his 128 men never returned. Four years later, Royal Navy Lieutenant Frederick Robinson and Assistant Surgeon Edward Adams are determined to find the men missing in the Arctic. While they are united in purpose, they are divided in ambition. The pious and idealistic Adams strives to save his boyhood hero. Robinson hungers for promotion through the Admiralty ranks.

At the end of this book, your child should be able to identify how John Cabot and Henry Hudson searched for the Northwest Passage. What was this passage and what was its significance in the exploration of the Americas? Furthermore, your child should be able to locate the regions and when they were discovered. Did the search come without hardships? Know the answers and more!