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42) El mapa secreto
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311 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
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A novel set between the past and the present, between the fifteenth century China, in the time of the expeditions of Sinbad the Sailor, and the twentieth century, when the powerhouse China has become has great influence over the world as a whole. Along the way, we travel cross Spain and Italy of the fifteenth century, during the age of the great explorers, who unknowingly were about to discover the New World thanks to a secret society of Chinese women...
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Expeditioners volume 2
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391 pages : illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Kit, Zander, and M. K. West are settling into their new lives as students at the Academy for the Exploratory Sciences when Kit finds another mysterious map left for him by their father, the brilliant, famous--and presumed dead--explorer Alexander West. Why did Alexander leave the maps behind, and why are government agents so determined to seize them? What is really going on in a mysterious and unknown stretch of the Caribbean, famous for its violent...
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1 audio disc (approximately 60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Retells the daring adventures of the explorer who was the first Englishman to sail around the world; helped to defeat the Spanish Armada; and who, encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I, was a feared pirate in his time.
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353 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm
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English
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"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson -- a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster -- is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father...
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Courtneys volume 15
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426 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From jacket of book: When his stepfather's gambling debts leave him a marked man, Francis Courtney feels to South Africa with revenge on his mind. His uncle, Tom Courtney, killed Francis's father. Christopher Courtney gave up a privileged position to become a fierce warrior, but his path led to violence and treachery. When the two Courtney men collide, the sins of the father will change the fate of a younger generation.
"The New York Times bestselling...
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Dora the Explorer volume 3
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dora and Boots go down deep into the sea in a submarine to help Pirate Pig find his lost treasure chest. Features rebuses.
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Physical Desc
309 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On summer vacation in Scotland, the Thea sisters are intrigued by a tapestry that is really a treasure map supposedly leading to a hidden alabaster garden where an ancient treasure is buried, and the story of Aurora Beatrix Lane, an adventurous explorer mouse--and when the tapestry is stolen they set out to find the treasure using the explorer's diary as a guide.
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