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N.Y. : N.Y.: Dover Pubns Inc., 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. Very Good ++ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.400 plus index. 250 illustrations and photographs. May 24, 1869, the Green River portage, Wyomiong, ten men and their assignment: to fill in the last white space on the map, to explore the last great unmapped and unknown part of the continental U.S. This is their story. clean tight copy cover shows slight wear to edges with creasing front cover right lower corner written on frontpiece bought at Grand Canyon.

New York: N.Y. : Meredith Press, 1967. Good/Good. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.191 with index. maps/b/w photos. Based upon the author's study of 16thc. manuscripts and travels over most of the trails covered by these helmeted explorers, this book covers the years 1540-1542 and is geared for younger readers. An army of Spanish conquistadores, lead by Francisco Vasquez Coronado set off from Mexico City to explore the hear of the American continent. d/j edgewear with small nicks and some tears with a few pieces missing. d/j back cover soiled.

London: England: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1976. Very Good/Very Good. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. pp.224. front d/j has surface of jacket narrow 1" torn off. Includes explorers, Roald Amundsen, Charles M. Doughty, H. M. Stanley, Burke and Wills, Mary Kingsley, Jedediah Smith, Baron von Humboldt, James Cook, Francisco Pizarro, Christopher Columbus with a page of further reading and picture credits.

Little, Brown and Company, 1907. Hard Cover/No Jacket. Very Good. Pictorial Cover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp. 292. New edition, revised, with illustrations. scribbled with pencil on back inside cover and backpiece. black picture on cover with gold writing on spine.

London: England: Dennis Dobson, 1956. Very Good/Good. Hard Cover Very Good/Good First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 191. Worlds Without End series. Illustrated maps by Rafael Palacios. In this book we go to the Northwest with Hudson, to the North Pacific with Berin, to the Mississippi with La Salle, and Australia with Cook, through Africa with Livingstone and Stanley, to the North Pole with Perry and to the South Pole with Amundsen and Byrd, Shackleton and Scott, Fuchs and Hillary. Whew! 1" tear on d/j top left.