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Reviewed on April 1, 1998
Gr 4-8 Two broad overviews for interested browsers. Polar Regions is the more successful book because the subject can be surveyed more easily by children curious about how exploration of these regions has progressed. Green begins with an explanation of what polar regions are. The remainder of the book offers two-page discussions of various efforts to locate, map, colonize, and cross the North or South Poles. The chronology begins with Eric the Red in A.D. 986 and contin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More