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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book introduces the men and women who risked everything to explore the world, from the highest mountains to the deep darkness of the oceans. "The Picture Book of Great Explorers" by Gillian Clements is an informational book about the world's most notable and accomplished explorers. The book covers the earliest explorers to astronauts, detailing where they went, what they discovered, and how that impacted the world. I liked this book because it covers a wide variety of explorers. I think any child could find an explorer in the book that interested them. However, it is almost too much information given at once. This book would be good to bring out at multiple points during the year for history class. It could also be used as a research project for discussing the most famous explorers. This book is a good informational book because it is presented in a pleasing way with understandable language. It isn't overly fact-heavy. The media used for this book is watercolor. no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)910.9History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. explorationRatingAverage:
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