Logging you in...
Landmark Books Series
The Landmark Books are a series of non-fiction books published by Random House in the fifties and early sixties. The books were by good writers about appealing subjects from America’s past.
Books in the Landmark Books series:
The Conquest of the North and South Poles (1952)
This short book includes American exploration at the poles by Peary and Byrd.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Russell Owen
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Balboa, Swordsman and Conquistador (1956)
In 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and founded the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas at Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien.
Read online at archive.org. ... View More
Author(s):
Felix Riesenberg, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky