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Around the World in a Hundred Years
by: Jean Fritz

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.922
EAN: 9780399225277
ISBN: 0399225277
Label: Putnam Juvenile
Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: March 23, 1994
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Putnam Juvenile
Sales Rank: 528381

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Product Description:
Brings to life the accomplishments of ten extraordinary explorers--including Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, John Cabot, and Ferdinand Magellan--who braved the unknown to discover uncharted lands and to find their way around the world.

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- Around the World in 100 years
the book was in excellent condition and has served the purpose for which it was pourchased

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- How many inaccuracies are there?
I am trying to make a decision as to whether to use this book or not, for homeschool. The first time around, I was "taken" by the fun and interesting way things were presented, and appreciated the uncomfortable truths that I was not taught in school. When it spoke of "Christians" this, that, and the other - I was not so much bothered because Christians have not been perfect over the centuries. Far from it. As I read my bible, we see that some of the greatest bible heros had huge blights on their lives. But we learn from that. For example, David's affair. But we see that he was held accountable, and we see His turning back to God. We see that men fail, but God is redemptive, and Sovereign. So I am not afraid to look at the failings of Christianity, however, this book goes beyond that. ... Read More

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- hatred, not history
How, in these PC days, did this book ever get published? The constant bashing of Christians isn't just offensive, it's factually incorrect in so many ways. The author belittles the great of accomplishes of many who were motivated by faith, and in general is utterly scornful of her subjects.

It's one thing to present the negative truths of history, slavery really did happen, but quite another to present it in its most brutal and ugly forms IN A CHILDREN'S BOOK.

The writer clearly has personal problems dealing with those of the Christian faith, be they living or dead, and treats her reads with a patronizing scorn as well as her subjects. I'm glad I read this before my son saw it - I try to teach him to look at BOTH sides of a story, something the author fails to do in ... Read More

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- Horrible!
I wish I had read this BEFORE I gave it to my son to read! It is very anti-Christian.

For example, the author writes about wonderful advances in scientific principles and then launches into: "Then suddenly all this wondering and figuring stopped. Christianity was a new religion, fighting for survival, and in A.D. 391 Christians burned the city of Alexandria and its famous libraries, which contained, along with many ancient treasures of scholarship, the work of Ptolemy. Christians did not believe in scholarship. They thought it was sacrilegious to be curious. Anything people wanted to know, they said, could be found in the Bible."

Christians were NOT responsible for burning the city of Alexandria. It just gets worse from there on.

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- Anti-Catholic
I haven't read more than a couple chapters but what i did read was too anti-catholic for me. We scrapped the book. Wish I hadn't wasted my money on that one!

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