Kingfisher Great Discoveries And Amazing Adventure

Great Discoveries & Amazing Adventures looks at the moment of discovery and the deeper stories behind some of the world's most astonishing finds. Archaeologists, explorers, naturalists, and even ordinary people have all made discoveries that have caused the world to marvel and have advanced our knowledge in an important way. Great Discoveries & Amazing Adventures tells these stories and examines the influences they had on the course of history. Great Discoveries & Amazing Adventures contains stunning photography and digital illustrations that give absorbing insight into the stories of excitement and discovery. Editorial Reviews From School Library Journal Grade 4-7 - An entertaining introductory look at a swath of discoveries, and at some of the people who made them. Divided into four areas ("Nature's marvels," "Earth's riches," "Lost wonders," and "Hoaxes and frauds"), the heavily illustrated two-page units present 31 various finds. Ranging from Tollund Man to Przewalski's horse, the source of the Nile to deep-sea vents, Machu Picchu to the Vung Tau shipwreck, each topic is described through several paragraphs of narrative, fact boxes, full-color photos/illustrations with captions, and an occasional quote from the adventurer/scientist/discoverer involved. Relatively up to date (the Hitler diaries and Archaeoraptor are included in the hoaxes), attractive, and with a foreword by Robert Ballard, this factoid-loaded title will lure interested readers and propel the seriously curious into further, more detailed investigations. Inviting, exciting, and eminently browsable. - Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright å¨ Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. About the Author Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of nonfiction for young readers. In 1991 she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for MacDonald's Take One: Rubbish, and in 1992 she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then she has written more than 20 children's books on a wide range of subjects. She is the author of Kingfisher's recent Saints and Angels. Claire lives in Hertford.