Exploration into India

by Anita Ganeri

Surveys the history of India from the Indus Valley civilization to the present, introduces religion, the arts, and culture, and recounts the lives of Indian leaders and noteworthy visitors.

Genres: History

48 pages, Library Binding

First published June 10, 1994

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Teri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recommended in Story of the World. Not a read aloud book--but a good supplement to see photos of artifacts from India, like a sculture found in Mohenjo-Daro.

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as part of my son's history curriculum.