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Tigers of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay: The Boy Whose Dream Was Everest by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Ed Young (Atheneum, 2006)
A Nepalese climber, Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first men on the summit of Mount Everest.
A profile of Norgay is posted on the Scholastic Teachers web site.
A Picture Book of Sacagawea by David A. Alder, illustrated by Dan Brown (Holiday House, 2001)
A translator and guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, this Native American woman was an invaluable member of the team.
The PBS special Lewis & Clark: Inside the Corps offers more biographical information on Sacagawea.
Despite All Obstacles: LaSalle and the Conquest of the Mississippi by Joan Elizabeth Goodman, illustrated by Tom McNeely (Mikaya Press, 2001)
Follow La Salle from his birth in France through his Mississippi adventures through a text filled with excerpts from letters, diaries and journals.
The Handbook of Texas Online provides a biographical sketch of La Salle.
book source: library
Black Whiteness by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1998)
This is a harrowing account of the 1934 Antarctic winter Byrd spent alone at the South Pole. Brrrrr.
See what’s happening today at the South Pole at the Southpolestation.com web site.
Far Beyond the Gate: Alexandra David-Neel’s Journey to Lhasa by Don Brown (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
David-Neel did not represent the norm. This intrepid Victorian traveler and opera singer gloried in journeying to remote parts of the world. She became and the first Western woman to enter Lhasa, Tibet in 1924.
Alexandra David-Neel’s bio on Wikipedia offers additional info.
