Overview
Dare to venture into the unknown! A novelty-rich guide reveals the secrets to exploring all corners of the world, from jungles to oceans, from mountains to deserts to frozen tundra.The year is 1930, and the president of the Society of Intrepid Explorers — inspired by great explorers throughout history — has laid out essential tips for all young adventurers determined to go where no modern human has gone before. Whether the goal is uncovering a lost civilization, finding a strange new species, or making a chance discovery along the way, here are the crucial (and interactive) tools intrepid readers will need to prepare for, navigate, and survive all manner of expeditions, as well as to imagine the world of possibilities just waiting to be explored.
Synopsis
Dare to venture into the unknown! A novelty-rich guide reveals the secrets to exploring all corners of the world, from jungles to oceans, from mountains to deserts to frozen tundra.
The year is 1930, and the president of the Society of Intrepid Explorers — inspired by great explorers throughout history — has laid out essential tips for all young adventurers determined to go where no modern human has gone before. Whether the goal is uncovering a lost civilization, finding a strange new species, or making a chance discovery along the way, here are the crucial (and interactive) tools intrepid readers will need to prepare for, navigate, and survive all manner of expeditions, as well as to imagine the world of possibilities just waiting to be explored.
Children's Literature
If you've always wanted to train for adventure, then this guide for young explorers is the book for you. What should you take on your expedition? First and foremost, it's important to stock up on food supplies. What sort of training will you need? Learning a language might be a first step. Where will you go? Will you venture across the oceans or down into their watery depths? Or through jungles and deserts or to the most inhospitable places of all—the North and South Poles? (Check out the Race to the Pole game). Read up on what dangers may await. Find out what you need to know to stay alive, and, above all, have fun! Copiously illustrated with colored drawings and black-and-white sketches that evoke past eras of exploration, this book is sure to engage reluctant readers. Kids will be having so much fun exploring the pop-up Mayan pyramid and checking out all the other interactive bits, that they will probably never realize they are reading. This is a great gift choice for an individual boy or girl; unfortunately all those fascinating hands-on interactive bits make this book less suitable for library shelves. Reviewer: Anita Barnes Lowen