Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventures (DK Explorers)

The way this book is put together is perfect. It has very engaging photos and lots of different information about each explorer.

We are covid homeschoolers and this book has been the biggest hit for our history/geography studies. Love that there is a wide range of explorers to learn about. Some new ones for me too. I see the top bad review is because of the diverse (therefore liberal?) slant. I think that is one of the top reasons we've loved it. My daughter is more engaged and loves to choose one of the many women explorers to read about. It has brought up a lot of interesting discussions regarding women's and POC role in history. For example, did you know a black man was part of the crew that was the first to reach the North Pole? That isn't obscure history, that's erased history. Why not bring that truth to light? Five stars, excellent book, keep them coming.

Thank-you, Well Done!

My kids are going to love it and it will be a great book to add to our history collection.

Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World’s Greatest Adventures by Nellie Huang does just what its title says—traces the chronological journeys of 50+ explorer/adventurers, a nicely diverse lot in terms of region and gender from the Norse Lief Erikson to the Chinese Zheng He to the French woman Jeanne Baret who disguised herself as a man to go aboard ship to the Australian Aboriginal leader Bungaree and many, many more. The diversity and breadth are definitely two of the strengths of this survey, even if Huang sometimes blurs the line (especially in latter examples) between “explorer” and “adventurer.” But that’s a minor quibble in a collection that either brings to more light underreported examples or offers up a few that, at least in my experience (and I read a good amount in this area) were wholly new to me.The book is text-heavy, so not really for younger readers—more in the 4th or 5th grade and up I’d say. The illustrations are fine, if not particularly captivating or compelling, but Huang makes very good use of primary documents such as photos and journals. Older books on the topic tend to cover the same old same old white European males (de Game, Columbus, Cook, etc.—all the usual suspects). Newer ones have often broadened to include, say, Zhen He, whose vast armada of huge ships has come more to the forefront in the past decade or so. But I haven’t seen many texts on the topic (or honestly, any that I can recall) that introduce such a broad range of people, cultures, and regions. DK has always been one of my favorite non-fiction publishers for young readers and this book is just yet another example of the excellent work they do.

I got this for my 10 year old and it is a great book to read a few pages at a time. The pictures are engaging and the people who are profiled are interesting to learn about. It is definitely easy reading but presented in an appealing way.

This book is a great addition to any Homeschool library. A must have for History! This book has a lot of great information on the World's great Explorers.

Great info with some pictures about well know and other explorers from many countries from early times to space exploration