Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278154 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-16
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Synopsis
Freaky Peaks takes you on a thrilling mountain tour from Everest to Kilimanjaro. Read about the intrepid explorers who conquered the world's highest mountains and try to spot the mysterious Yeti. Discover how mountains are formed and follow a giant glacier as it carves out a path down a mountain. It's earth-shatteringly exciting!

Customer Reviews

'Geography has never been such fun before!'
An excellent duo of books from Anita Ganeri, from the `HORRIBLE GEOGRAPHY' collection of books - please see our individual reviews on each book for further information.

`Geography has never been such fun before!'
`Does Geography grind you down?
Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and tongue-twisting terms?
Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you scale the heady heights of Freaky Peaks ...........
Gasp! ...at the jellyfish stranded at the top of the mountain.
Scream! ....when you bump into the legendary yeti.
Run for your life!...as an avalanche hurtles towards you.

And if that is not freaky enough for you....take a thrilling mountain tour from Everest to Kilimanjaro, read about the intrepid explorers who sang hymns to stay alive and follow a giant glacier as it carves out a ghastly groove down a mountainside.

It's earth shatteringly exciting!
Geography has never been so horrible!'

127 pages, split over 9 chapters:-

Introduction
On top of the world
Moving mountains
Slippery slopes
Freaky nature
Peaks and people
Climb every mountain
Peak survival
Peak condition

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

A Truely Great Read
When I collected my copy of Freaky Peaks, I couldn't wait to burst it open and read the factful, and sometimes witty text. Anita Ganeri is a great author, and writes with an entertaining flair. Freaky Peaks is a book all about the geography of mountains. It starts off with a great, but true, chapter about the first people to climb Mt. Everest. I won't go into many details - otherwise it might ruin the plot, but Freaky Peaks has got the facts and humour for any 9 to 12 year old who wants to know about mountains, all at a very good price. The only let down, for me anyway, is the miniscule amount of text in parts, with, I think, a little less text than Earth Shattering Earthquakes for chapter lengths, but still a great read for a long car journey. This book is absoloutely excellent when it comes to illustrations. The graphics and drawings are detailed and humourously crafted to add a twist of fun into them. The Horrible series is a great way to start off your childs, or a school library with 9 to 12 year old, fun filled facts. An outstanding read, which you can't put down.