(4) 4-6 Great Explorations series. Six explorers--including three Spanish conquistadors--are profiled alongside the lands and peoples they discovered and subjugated. Written in a colloquial style, several of the titles skate over the effects the Europeans' conquests had on the native populations, but for the most part these books are thorough. All six titles contain good-quality reproductions. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Great Explorations titles: Vasco da Gama, Zebulon Pike, Samuel de Champlain, Francisco Pizarro, Juan Ponce de León, and Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

(3) 4-6 Great Explorations series. In each of these books, an informative, reader-friendly text mindfully balanced with archival photographs, prints, and maps in both color and black and white introduces history's most notable explorers. This well-organized series provides an engaging chronological biography for the report-driven reader as well as for the general inquirer. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Great Explorations titles: Hernando Cortés, Sir Ernest Shackleton, John Charles Frémont, Francisco Coronado, Marco Polo, and Sir Francis Drake.]

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) YA Great Explorations series. The well-researched books in this series will be useful to students writing reports. Maps and archival reproductions in both black and white and color extend the text, but the illustrations aren't always captioned and maps from antiquity aren't always labeled as such. Nevertheless, these are engaging introductions. Each book includes a chronology. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Great Expectations titles: Daniel Boone, Robert e. Peary, L Salle, Lewis and Clark, Captain James Cook, Ferdinand Magellan.]

Reviewer: Barbara Barstow

(4) YA Great Explorations series. The well-researched books in this series will be useful to students writing reports. Maps and archival reproductions in both black and white and color extend the text, but the illustrations aren't always captioned and maps from antiquity aren't always labeled as such. Nevertheless, these are engaging introductions. Each book includes a chronology. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Great Expectations titles: Daniel Boone, Robert e. Peary, L Salle, Lewis and Clark, Captain James Cook, Ferdinand Magellan.]

Reviewer: Barbara Barstow