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The Real Book About Explorers by Irvin Block 1952 HC/DJ The Real Book About Explorers Irvin Block New York: Garden City Books Copyright 1952 192 pages Illustrated by Jules Gotlieb Edited by Helen Hoke Book Club edition The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but lightly tanned. The blue cover shows light wear. The dust jacket is toned and has a small amount of edge wear. Good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. Beyond the horizon...from the earliest days, people wondered what might be there. At first, because they didn't know, they made up fantastic stories of queer beasts and people...beyond the horizon. But wondering isn't enough for some men. They have to know the truth. Those men are the explorers. Marco Polo, bewitched by the glories of the East; Columbus, a man with a dream that wouldn't quite come true; Magellan, driving cruelly toward a goal he never reached; Lewis and Clark, entrusted to explore a vast, rich territory; other men always pressing onward to discover the unknown. This is a genuine thriller about some of the world's most daring, imaginative men and their discoveries that stretched back our horizons. .11 (#000083)