Currie, Stephen, 1960-

Polar explorers / by Stephen Currie. - San Diego, Calif. : Detroit [Mich.] : Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale, c2002. - 112 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - History makers .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-105) and index.

Discusses the lives, education, successes, and failures of such explorers as John Franklin, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott as they ventured into the Arctic and Antarctic.

7.6 5-8 Follett Library Resources

1560069570

2001005783


Explorers--Polar regions--Biography.


Polar regions--Exploration.

G584 / .C87 2002

919.804 B 919.804