Benchmark/Marshall Cavendish.(Samuel De Champlain)(Vasco Nunez De Balboa)(Juan Ponce De Leon)(Zebulon Pike)(Vasco De Gama)(Francisco Pizarro)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)

Children's Bookwatch | May 1, 2005 | Copyright

Benchmark/Marshall Cavendish

99 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown NY 10591

$20.95 each www.marshallcavendish.com

The third set of Benchmark's 'Great Explorations' series is out, this reaching grades 4-6 with an excellent series of biographical coverages of major explorers. Harold Faber's Samuel De Champlain (0761416080) recounts the life and achievements of the major explorerer of Canada, Steven Otfinoski's Vasco Nunez De Balboa (0761416099) details the discoveries of the Pacific region explorer, his Juan Ponce De Leon (0761416102) tells of the discoverer ...

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