This book will take you on a journey of discovery as you join the great explorers and chart their voyages into the unknown. Exactly 100 facts, accompanied by bautiful illustrations and detailed photographs, reveal fascinating facts about early exploration by the ancient Egyptians and greeks, daring atttempts to reach the tops of the highest peaks and the first steps into the vastness of space. Throughout there are puzzles, quizzes and projects-go exploring with your own homemade compass, create some prehistoric cave art and find out about the ghost that haunts Mount Everst!
Content Note
These explorers include: Roald Amundsen, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Marco Polo, Samuel and FLorence Baker, Vasco de Balboa, Ortis Barton, Henry Bates, Ibn Battuta, William Beebe, Henry Bingham, Aime Boupland, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Robert Burke, Richard Barton, Rene Cailie, William Clark, Achille Compagnoni, Frederick Cook, James Cook, Herman Cortes, Vasco de Gama, Chrales Darwin, Bartolomeu Dias, Francis Drake, Yuri Gogarin, Queen Harshepsur, Henry the Navigator, Wally Herbert, Edmund Hillary, Andrew Irvine, Kublai Khan, Mary Kingsley, Lino Locedelli, Meriwether Lewis, David Livingston, Machu Picchu, George Mallory, Fridbjof Nansen, Tenaing Norgay, Mungo Park, Pobert Peary, Auguste Piccard, Francisco Pizarro, Heinrich Schliemann, Robert Scott, John Speke, Henry Stanley, John McDouall Stuart, Charles Sturt, Amerigo Vespucci, Von Humboldt, William WIlls.