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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #415837 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

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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About the Author
Gillian Clements studied Illustration under Raymond Briggs at Brighton Polytechnic. Frances Lincoln published Gillian's first book in this series A Picture History of Great Inventors in 2000.

Customer Reviews

Great Explorers Very Colorful and Entertaining
The Picture History of Great Explorers offers very colorful and engaging pictures as it guides the reader through a pictorial history of explorers from the earliest explorers who entered America to the exploration of space. Maps provide the reader with visual images of the actual routes taken by these brave and adventurous men as their stories are shared in an engaging and knowledgeable format. Very helpful for teachers wishing to share the excitement of exploration with their students. Includes many of the explorers traditionally studied as well as some less-known ones.

great book, must have
very big coverage, goes beyound a well-known names. Also great out-of-print the picture history of the great inventors