Picture History of Great Explorers

by Gillian Clements (Illustrator)

This is a fun, informative, chronological guide to the history of world explorers. The book begins with the ancient explorers, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, through to Magellan and Drake, and comes right up to the present day with Ranulph Fiennes. Each page puts an explorer in the context of his or her own time, with details of other important contemporary events and figures, the new inventions which were the springboards for their adventures, and the world regions which were capturing people's imagination at that time. Gillian Clements includes the reasons behind exploration, and how technology and exploration have gone hand-in-hand throughout history. She combines entertaining fact and historical information with eye-catching illustration.

Genres: History, Biography

96 pages, Paperback

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.