Explorers, Nellie Huang
Explorers, Nellie Huang
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Explorers
Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventures

Author: Nellie Huang

Narrator: William Roberts

Unabridged: 3 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: DK Children

Published: 09/15/2020


Synopsis

Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction audiobook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space!

Great explorers have one thing in common - a desire to leap into the unknown, no matter how dangerous that might be. From Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the world 500 years ago to Barbara Hillary's treks to the North and South poles while in her seventies, Explorers documents the trials and hardships of the men and women who rewrote our understanding of the world, and showed us what humans are capable of.

Explorers looks at the towering achievements of more than 50 explorers in great detail, with incredible cross-sections revealing the amazing detail inside Spanish galleons, lost cities, and spaceships. The explorers come from all walks of life and parts of the world.

Packed with jaw-dropping facts and written in language that will get the heart racing, Explorers is the perfect audiobook for any budding young adventurer.

Nellie Huang is an adventure travel blogger, journalist, author and new mum who wants to visit every country in the world (she's currently been to 120). In her quest for adventure, she has climbed an active volcano in Guatemala, reconstructed a school in rural Tanzania, followed the trails of sea lions on the Galápagos Islands, and gone scuba diving off the coast of Borneo.

© 2019 Nellie Huang © 2020 DK Audio

About The Author

Nellie Huang is an adventure travel blogger (https://www.wildjunket.com/), journalist, author, and new mother on a quest to visit every country in the world (she's currently been to 120). As well as her successful blog, Nellie's work has featured in National Geographic and CNN Go. In her quest for adventure, she has climbed an active volcano in Guatemala, reconstructed a school in rural Tanzania, followed the trails of sea lions on the Galápagos Islands, and gone scuba diving off the coast of Borneo. She has over 80,000 followers on Twitter and over 17,000 followers on Instagram. She also runs small-group adventure trips to remote, unconventional destinations that people venture to, such as Iraq, Kurdistan, and Tajikistan.Jessamy Hawke is an illustrator working in ink, gouache, watercolor, and linocut-printmaking, having graduated with an MA in Illustration from Kingston University in 2016. Jessamy's project "A Midnight Clear," based on William Wharton's wartime novel, was shortlisted for the 2016 V&A Student Illustrator of the Year Award and was displayed in the V&A Museum in London, and she was Runner-Up in the Little White Lies Creative Brief competition in March 2017. Jessamy's work has been exhibited in solo shows in London and Oxford. She is also the author of the art blog aestronauts.com. Her work can be found at jessamyhawke.co.uk or on Instagram under the handle @jessamydrewthat.


Reviews

Such a fabulous children’s book on global exploration by pioneers who have opened the world! Includes 50 of the greatest adventurers, with accounts in their own voices, rare photos and maps and artwork documenting their trips. Plus 60 of their assistants. This is how history should be taught, vibran......more

Goodreads review by Alicia

To be honest, I didn't expect to like this book a whole lot, as books about explorers tend to focus on European white men who traveled hundreds of years ago and often did some pretty awful stuff, and then those books tend to make heroes out of them. This book came as a pleasant surprise, as it not o......more

Goodreads review by Shilo

This was an *excellent* book about explorers and their expeditions. Each explorer got a page or two-page spread filled with fascinating facts about them and what they discovered. One thing I really, really liked about it is that it does *not* focus on the standard white / European explorers one lear......more