Picture History of Great Explorers

by Gillian Clements

A fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers, this book profiles both ancient and recent explorers, including Alexander the Great, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Lewis and Clark, Wilfred Thesiger, and Yuri Gagarin. Combining entertaining fact and historical information with eye-catching illustration, author Gillian Clements places each explorer in the context of his or her own time with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions and technologies which were the springboards for their adventures, and the destinations that captured the world’s imagination at that time.

Genres: History, Biography

96 pages, Hardcover

First published June 17, 2005

About the author

Gillian Clements studied Illustration under Raymond Briggs at Brighton Polytechnic.

Reviews

[Libby · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great resource. I think I might buy it. It has a page of information and illustrations about famous explorers (except Columbus gets 2 pages) Starting with Leif Erikson and going all the way to present space explorers. Most of the people mentioned I had never heard of. Each page also has tidbits of information about other things going on at the same time to give you a bit of context. I feel it is very well done. My 6-year old son enjoys listening to me read it, though it's too advanced for him to read to himself.