The World Around Us
#23 - The Illustrated Story of Great Explorers
(July 1960)
Gilberton,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-05-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gilberton World-Wide Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
A Classics Illustrated Publication
- Editing
- Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Keywords educational; exploration; explorer; fact
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gerald McCann (painting, signed)
- Inks
- Gerald McCann (painting, signed)
- Colors
- Gerald McCann (painting, signed)
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- polar explorer
- Synopsis
- polar explorer with dog sled and team; insets of desert travelers on camels, and Spanish conquistadors
- Reprints
-
in Unsere Welt Illustrierte (BSV - Williams, 1962 series) #14 -
in Alt i bilder (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1960 series) #14 - Store oppdagelser ([1961]) -
in Wereld in beeld (Classics/Williams, 1960 series) #14 - Ontdekkingsreizigers ([1961]) -
in World Illustrated (Thorpe & Porter, 1960 series) #514 - Story of Great Explorers ([1961])
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- Keywords
- arctic; dog; dog sled; educational; exploration; explorer; fact; polar
The Illustrated Story of Great Explorers
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Native Americans; Spanish conquistadors; French voyageurs; space explorers
- Synopsis
- Montage of explorers; introductory text on the question, "What lies beyond?"
- Reprints
- Keywords
- American Indian; educational; exploration; explorer; fact; Native American; space; space ship
Indexer Notes
Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
Passage to the Indies
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Vasco da Gama; Bartholomeu Diaz; Portuguese mariners
- Synopsis
- Using ships built by Diaz, da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope and initiates direct European trade with India.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Africa; educational; exploration; explorer; fact; India; Portugal
Indexer Notes
Artist credit verified by Roger Hill.
Saltarella sees just George Evans, except for the last 2 panels being not by Evans.
The Land of El Dorado
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Francisco de Orellana; Friar Gaspar de Carvajal; Native Americans
- Synopsis
- Orellana and his men cross South America, including a descent of the Amazon.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Amazon River; American Indian; Ecuador; educational; El Dorado; exploration; explorer; fact; Native American; South America
Indexer Notes
Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
A Storm of Peace
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Tropical cyclones and hurricanes in history
- Keywords
- cyclone; educational; fact; hurricane; Samoa
Famous Explorers
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Eric the Red; Christopher Columbus; Ferdinand Magellan
- Synopsis
- Short biographies and speculative illustrations of three explorers
- Reprints
- Keywords
- educational; exploration; explorer; fact; Viking
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Saltarella.
The Mysterious Continent
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Captain James Cook; Nicholas Young; Chief Tupia
- Synopsis
- Captain Cook undertakes three voyages of exploration throughout the Pacific, but fails to find Australia.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; exploration; explorer; fact; navy; Polynesia
Indexer Notes
Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
Emmeline Went Marching
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Synopsis
- Emmeline Pankhurst conducts an aggressive, and ultimately successful, campaign for women's suffrage.
- Keywords
- education; fact; feminism; suffragette; suffragist; women's rights
Famous Explorers
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Robert Falcon Scott; Roald Amundsen; Richard Evelyn Byrd
- Synopsis
- Short biographies and illustrations of three explorers.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Antarctic; Arctic; education; exploration; explorer; fact; North Pole; polar; South Pole
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Saltarella.
The Great Wilderness
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Alexander MacKenzie
- Synopsis
- Alexander MacKenzie, representing the Northwest Company, makes the first crossing of North America by Europeans.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- American Indian; Canada; education; exploration; explorer; fact; Native American; trading post
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Saltarella.
The Pathmarker
comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- John C. Fremont; Kit Carson; Charles Preuss; Lucien Maxwell
- Synopsis
- Guided by Kit Carson, Fremont explores and maps a route through the Rockies to Oregon country.
- Keywords
- American Indian; bison; buffalo; education; exploration; explorer; fact; Native American
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Saltarella.
Famous Explorers
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Jacques Cartier; Vitus Bering; Edward Parry
- Synopsis
- Short biographies and illustrations of three Arctic explorers
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Arctic; education; exploration; explorer; fact
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Saltarella.
The Mine of Death
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Jacob Waltz
- Synopsis
- Story of the Lost Dutchman Mine
- Keywords
- education; fact; miner; mining; prospecting; prospector
To the North Pole
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Robert E. Peary; Matthew Henson; Ooqueah; Ootah; Seegloo; Egingwah
- Synopsis
- Peary and his men are the first to reach the North Pole.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Arctic; dog sled; education; Eskimo; exploration; explorer; fact; Greenland; Inuit; navy; North Pole
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Saltarella.
Famous Explorers
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Vivian Fuchs; Thor Heyerdahl; Maurice Herzog
- Synopsis
- Short biographies, with illustrations, of three explorers.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; exploration; explorer; fact
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Saltarella.
The Roof of the World
comic story / 7.66 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Edmund Hillary; Bhotia Tenzing Norkey
- Synopsis
- As part of a larger expedition, Hillary and Tenzing make the first ascent on Mount Everest.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; exploration; explorer; fact; mountain climbing; mountaineering; Nepal; Sherpa
Indexer Notes
Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
[no title indexed]
text article / 0.34 page
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We hope you enjoyed this issue.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Suggested reading
- Reprints
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
["The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales"]
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2.
The Illustrated Story of Great Explorers
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3.
Passage to the Indies
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4.
The Land of El Dorado
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5.
A Storm of Peace
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6.
Famous Explorers
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The Mysterious Continent
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8.
Emmeline Went Marching
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9.
Famous Explorers
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10.
The Great Wilderness
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11.
The Pathmarker
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12.
Famous Explorers
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13.
The Mine of Death
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14.
To the North Pole
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15.
Famous Explorers
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16.
The Duel
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17.
The Roof of the World
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["We hope you enjoyed this issue."]
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["Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication"]
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