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The Picture History of Great Explorers
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by Gillian Clements
Sales Rank: 391075
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List Price: $19.95
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Features
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 96 pages
Published by: Frances Lincoln Children's Books June 17, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1845070755
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1845070755
Book Dimensions:
10 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
From Booklist
Gr. 2-4. Beginning with the first prehistoric explorers and moving through recent explorations of space, this short introduction covers a wide variety of figures. Some names are well known: Leif Eriksson, Francis Drake, and Thor Heyerdahl. But many lesser-known explorers are introduced as well. William Jansz found trading opportunities for the Dutch East India Company in the 1600s, and Hugh Clapperton explored Africa in the early nineteenth century. The two to three paragraphs of information per subject are probably insufficient for school reports, and the few maps do not provide enough assistance for pupils. But this highly visual book (with an illustrated time line running along the bottom of the page) will attract browsers, and it is rare to find a book so comprehensive in terms of the men (and a few women) who wanted to see what was around the next bend. A glossary is appended. Linda Perkins
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Product Description
A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers, this book profiles both ancient and recent explorers, including Alexander the Great, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Lewis and Clark, Wilfred Thesiger, and Yuri Gagarin. Combining entertaining fact and historical information with eye-catching illustration, author Gillian Clements places each explorer in the context of his or her own time with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions and technologies which were the springboards for their adventures, and the destinations that captured the world’s imagination at that time.
Reader Reviews
very big coverage, goes beyound a well-known names. Also great out-of-print the picture history of the great inventors
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