Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #226765 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-16
• Format: Illustrated
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you are cast away on the far-flung shores of Wild Islands...*Marvel! as a brand-new island pops up from the sea. *Gasp! at the hot-tempered island that blew its top. *Choke! on the smell of an island dragon's foul breath. And if that's not wild enough for you ...discover where to find coconuts with magical powers, try to crack the case of the missing island and read the remarkable story of a real-life Robinson Crusoe. It's earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible!

Customer Reviews

`Geography has never been such fun before!'
`Does Geography grind you down?
Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines?
Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you are cast away on the far-flung shores of `Wild Islands' ......
Marvel! ...as a brand-new island pops up form the sea
Gasp! ...at the hot-tempered island that blew its top.
Choke! ...on the smell of an island dragon`s foul breath.
And if that is not wild enough for you....discover where to find coconuts with magical powers, try to crack the case of the missing island and read the remarkable story of a real-life Robinson Crusoe.
It's earth shatteringly exciting!
Geography has never been so horrible!'

126 pages, split over 8 chapters:-

Introduction
Castaway!
Incredible islands
Flaming islands
Island wildlife
Wild island living
Island hopping
Islands in danger

Written with the typical humour of this series of books, in a variety of fonts, interspersed with numerous black and white illustrations/cartoons.