In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood - each already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome - sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West's understanding of human history.
From "Rocket Summer" to "The Million-Year Picnic," Ray Bradbury's stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future. Written in the 1940s, the chronicles drip with nostalgic atmosphere--shady porches with tinkling pitchers of lemonade, grandfather clocks, chintz-covered sofas. But longing for this comfortable past proves dangerous in every way to Bradbury's characters--the golden-eyed Martians as well as the humans. Starting in the far-flung future of 1999, expedition after expedition leaves Earth to investigate Mars. The Martians guard their mysteries well, but they are decimated by the diseases that arrive with the rockets.
Lewis and Clark were able to overcome the obstacles of unknown territory and potentially dangerous encounters with American Indians to open the way for settlers to begin the westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean. The Lewis and Clark’s expedition originated in the mind of President Thomas Jefferson as a way to make scientific and geographic observations about the lands of the new Louisiana Purchase. Author Judith Edwards highlights the extraordinary spirit of courage and cooperation that existed among the members of the famous expedition.
Teen Eli Readers - English: Expedition Brazil + CD
Niara, Yoshi and Gunnar are the lucky winners of a trip to Brazil. While making a documentary about the country, they will visit the largest city in South America, Sao Paulo, the unbelievable capital, Brasilia, lovely Rio de Janeiro, and two natural wonders o f the world, the wetlands of Pantanal and the great Amazon rainforest...
Dyana Mackie's trip with her father is supposed to be tame compared to her usual excursions. But everything changes when they come across a dying climber who gives them a map showing where he cached money in the heights of the Andes. In the expedition that follows, Dyana and her father find treasures far more valuable than they imagined.
