200 Fun Facts About Explorers & Adventures For Kids: The Brave, the Completely Lost, and the People Who Mapped the Whole World by Accident! (3)
Language: English
Published by Jonah Mullen, 2026
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- Title
- 200 Fun Facts About Explorers & Adventures For Kids: The Brave, the Completely Lost, and the People Who Mapped the Whole World by Accident! (3)
- Author
- Mullen, Jonah
- Publisher
- Jonah Mullen
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798182927246
Columbus never actually reached Asia. He died convinced he had. And history gave him a holiday anyway.
Most kids learn explorer names but never the embarrassing, jaw-dropping truth behind them. The math mistake that launched Columbus's entire voyage. The captain who got famous for a trip he didn't survive. The continent Vikings found 500 years early that nobody believed existed.
History class skips the good parts. The mistakes. The mutinies. The mapmakers who drew sea monsters in blank spaces because they genuinely had no idea what was there.
200 Fun Facts About Explorers & Adventures For Kids by Jonah Mullen packs 16 chapters with true, ridiculous, stranger-than-fiction facts about the people who mapped our world one wrong turn at a time, written in a voice that actually sounds fun to read.
Inside, you'll discover:
✔ The Portuguese explorer who aimed for one country and accidentally claimed an entire continent, then sailed away without even stopping to look around
✔ Why Magellan gets credit for the first around-the-world voyage even though he died before it was half finished
✔ The brilliant women explorers whose discoveries got credited to the men standing nearby with notebooks
✔ What mapmakers actually drew when they had no idea what was in a blank space (hint: monsters)
✔ The Antarctic ship that got crushed like a soda can by ice-and how the crew survived anyway
✔ Why over 80% of Earth's ocean floor is still unmapped today, and who's down there looking right now
Perfect for curious readers ages 5-12 who'd rather learn history through wild true stories than memorize dates. Not for kids who want the boring version.
Every fact in here is real. Pick it up and find out how spectacularly wrong the experts usually were.
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