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Resources
Tools of Navigation: A Kid's Guide to the
History and Science of Finding Your Way
Adult Books
- Fritz, Jean. Around the World
in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan,
Putnam, 1998.
- Gurney, Alan. Compass: A Story
of Exploration and Innovation (W.W. Norton & Co.,
2004).
- Horwitz, Tony. Blue Latitudes:
Boldly going where Captain Cook has Gone Before (Henry
Holt & Company LLC, 2002).
- Kjellstrom, Bjorn. Be Expert with
Map & Compass: The Complete Orienteering Handbook
(Hungry Minds, Inc., 1994).
- Letham, Lawrence. GPS Made Easy:
Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors, 4th ed.
(The Mountaineers, 2003).
- Severin, Tim. The China Voyage:
Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft (London: Little, Brown,
1994).
- Severin, Tim. Tracking Marco Polo (Peter Bedrick Books, 1986).
- Sherman, Eric. Geocaching: Hike and Seek with your GPS (Apress,
2004).
- Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers:
The story of the great pioneers in cartography— from Antiquity
to the Space Age (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981).
Children’s Books
- Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
: The Extraordinary True Story
of Shackleton and the Endurance, (Crown Books for Young
Readers, 2000).
- Harmon, Daniel. Robert Peary: And
the Quest for the North Pole (Chelsea House Publications,
2001).
- Herbert, Janis. Lewis and Clark
for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery With 21 Activities.
(Chicago Review Press, 2000).
- Johnson, Sylvia. Mapping the World.
(Atheneum, 1999).
- MacDonald, Fiona. Marco Polo: A
Journey Through China (Franklin Watts, 1998).
- Matthews, Rupert. Explorer (DK Children, 2005).
- Stott, Carole, and Gorton, Steve. Space
Exploration (DK Children, 2004).
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Ages 9+
