Explore!: The Most Dangerous Journeys of All Time

by Deborah Kespert

Book Overview

History, adventure, and survival combine in this book about the most daring voyages made from the golden age of discovery to recent times. Young readers are introduced to the passionate and headstrong explorers who undertook these intrepid journeys and the challenges they faced.

Dividing the world into key types of terrain--polar, ocean, land, desert, river, sky, and space--the book relates the real-life stories of men and women from around...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500650136
• ISBN13: 9780500650134
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7