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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Eric the Red and Leif Ericson
Learn about Norwegian explorers Eric the Red and his son Leif Ericson who lived five hundred years before Christopher Columbus and explored Greenland and North America. [4:50]
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Pbs: Nova: Arctic Passage: My Life as an Explorer
Read an excerpt from Roald Amundsen's book, "My Life as an Explorer" where he describes his passage through the Northwest Passage. Learn what he learned from the Inuit people that helped him in future explorations.