Product Description

Geography with the gritty bits left in| Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and tiresome tests? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you step into the wide world of globetrotting Intrepid Explorers... * Marvel! as Ferdinand Magellan is first to sail around the world. * Shudder! as Mary Kingsley finds body bits in her jungle hut. * Shiver! as Captain Scott reaches the South Pole (only to find he's been beaten to it). And if that's not daring enough for you... find out how some intrepid explorers found their way without maps, why others always travelled in disguise, and what really happened on the expeditions in their secret diaries. It's earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74177 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-19
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

`Geography has never been such fun before!'
The Horrible Geography `Special' may appear to be expensive, but it is a slightly larger book than the regular series, standing 8.5" high and has 207 pages, split over 9 chapters:-

Introduction
Intrepid ancient explorers
Suffering sailors
Desert discoverers
Crazy climbers
Polar pioneers
River rovers
Intrepid modern explorers
Intrepid explorers timeline

written in a variety of fonts and full of black and white illustrations.

Packed full of facts, this book is in an easy-to-read format and winds up with a really useful 14-page timeline, split into:-

Ancient Times, The Middle Ages, 15th & 16th Centuries, 17th & 18th Centuries, 19th Century and 20th Century.....making it really handy for that last minute revision!