10 Explorers Who Changed the World - Couverture rigide

Gifford, Clive

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 075346103X ISBN 13 : 9780753461037

Editeur : Kingfisher, 2008

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'An inspiration to all adventurers!' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'A grandiose title and melodramatic, superhero-style art fail to lift Gifford's profiles of familiar explorers above the routine. Making only fitful efforts to support his titular premise, the author briefly retraces the routes of European explorers from Marco Polo and Columbus to Richard Burton and Jacques Cousteau, tucking in a chapter on Meriwether Lewis to represent the Americans and briefer sketches at the end of Zheng He and Mary Kingsley to add diversity. The prose reads like a series of uninspired school reports - 'On his second voyage, Cook traveled further south than any explorer before him Giant icebergs and severe storms tormented their journey' - and the author neither cites his sources nor provides leads to more information about his subjects. The steely-eyed, forward-leaning figures in Cousens's illustrations supply some eye candy, but there's nothing else here that any adequate library or encyclopedia won't provide. The simultaneously published Ten Leaders Who Changed The World (ISBN: 978-0-7534-6104-4) is no better, though at least the cast of modern heroes (Gandhi, Mandela) and tyrants (Hitler, Mao Zedong) is more multicultural in scope. (Collective biography. 10-12) (Kirkus Reviews) --l.dickson@macmillan.co.uk

Présentation de l'éditeur

Each book in the series contains ten linked biographies of key pioneers, achievers and notable figures in different fields of endeavour. The life links between entries reveal surprising and often overlooked chains of influence, giving each biography a fresh and eye-opening twist.This title in the series includes ten riveting, in-depth biographies, including Christopher Columbus, James Cook and Roald Amundsen. Fast-paced text is enhanced by punchy, Manga-style artworks to create the look and feel of a graphic novel that will hook the most reluctant of readers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kingfisher
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 075346103X
• ISBN 13: 9780753461037
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Cousens David
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible