Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventurers (DK Explorers) - Hardcover

Huang, Nellie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 024134378X ISBN 13: 9780241343784

Publisher: DK Children, 2019

Synopsis

Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction storybook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space!

Great explorers have one thing in common - a desire to leap into the unknown, no matter how dangerous that might be. From Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the world 500 years ago to Barbara Hillary's treks to the North and South poles while in her seventies, Explorers documents the trials and hardships of the men and women who rewrote our understanding of the world, and showed us what humans are capable of.

Explorers looks at the towering achievements of more than 50 explorers in great detail, with incredible cross-sections revealing the amazing detail inside Spanish galleons, lost cities, and spaceships. Hand-drawn maps reveal their intrepid journeys in great detail, and photographs highlight the artefacts and relics they found along the way. The explorers come from all walks of life and parts of the world.

Packed with jaw-dropping facts and written in language that will get the heart racing, Explorers is the perfect book for any budding young adventurer, combining both beautiful illustrations by Jessamy Hawke and fantastic photography.

About this title

Review:

Full of amazing stories and incredible cross-sections. * The Week Junior Science and Nature * Set out on an adventure with this fascinating book about some of the world's most amazing explorers [...] Stunning illustrations. * The Week Junior *

About the Author:

Nellie Huang is an adventure travel blogger (https://www.wildjunket.com/), journalist, author and new mum who wants to visit every country in the world (she's currently been to 120). In her quest for adventure, she has climbed an active volcano in Guatemala, reconstructed a school in rural Tanzania, followed the trails of sea lions on the Galįpagos Islands, and gone scuba diving off the coast of Borneo.

About this edition

• Publisher: DK Children
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 024134378X
• ISBN 13: 9780241343784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Hawke Jessamy