Matrix on Exploration (last updated July 2012)
Author
Freedman, Russell
Brown, Don
Dewey, Jennifer
Owings
Myers, Walter Dean
Title
Adventures of Marco Polo, The
Alice Ramsey’s Grand Adventure
Antarctic Journal
Level
2
Medium
Medium
Type
NF
NF
NF
Time Period
13th C
20th C
21st C.
Place Explored
From Italy to China
Across USA
Antarctica
Antarctica: Journeys to the South Pole
Medium
NF/Ph
19th-20th C
South Pole
Fritz, Jean
Burleigh, Robert
Hyatt, Patricia
Beattie, Owen &
Geiger, John
Yolen, Jane
Brown, Don
Roop, Peter & Roop,
Connie
Leacock, Elspeth, &
Buckley, Susan
Schyffert, Bea Uusma
Around the World in a Hundred Years
Black Whiteness
Coast to Coast with Alice
Buried in Ice
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
NF
NF
NF
NF
15thC-18th C
19thC
20th C
19th C
Various countries
Antarctic
Across USA
Newfoundland
Easy
Easy
Easy
F
NF
NF
15th C.
19th C.
15th C.
Carribean
Tibet
Carribean
Medium
NF
Van Steenwyk,
Elizabeth
Webb, Sophie
Steger, Will
Armstrong, Jennifer
Armstrong, Jennifer
Jenkins, Steve
Venables, Stephen
Shulevitz, Uri
Brown, Don
Encounter
Far Beyond the Garden Gate
I, Columbus: My Journal, 1492-3
Journeys in Time
Medium
F
19th C.
My Season with Penguins
Over the Top of the World
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
Spirit of Endurance
The Top of the World
To the Top: The Story of Everest
Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, The
Medium
Medium
Medium
Difficult
Medium
Medium
Medium
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF/P
20th C
20th C
19th C
19th C.
20th C
20th C
12th C
Easy
NF
20th C
Easy = Level 1 & 2
Med = Medium = Level 2 & 3
Diff. = Difficult = GED-level
NF
James Cook
Roald Amundsen
Robert Scott
Richard Byrd
Various explorers
Admiral Richard Byrd
Alice Ramsey
Sir John Franklin
Columbus
Columbus
Various places
Man Who Went to the Far Side of the
Moon, The
My Name is York
Uncommon Traveler
2
Explorer
Marco Polo
Alice Ramsey
Jennifer Owings Dewey
20th C
F = Fiction
NF = Nonfiction
Moon
Oregon Trail
Mt. Everest
Antarctica
Antarctica
Mt. Everest
Mt. Everest
Europe to
Jerusalem
Africa
Michael Collins, Buzz
Aldrin, Neil Armstrong
Lewis and Clark
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Various explorers
Benjamin of Tudela
Mary Kingsley