![]() ![]() I smiled most of my way through the book, and I don’t do that much. She both educates and engages the reader. She covers 10 famous explorers or explorer pairs: Samuel de Champlain, Marco Polo, Henry Hudson, Christopher Columbus, James Cook, Hernán Cortés, Lewis and Clark, John Franklin, Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and Roald Amundsen over a span of more than 1000 years. Why did they risk everything? Why did they brave storms, starvation and sickness? What was it about their times, goals and temperaments that made these explorers set out for the unknown? What did they hope to discover? What did they actually find, and how did they feel about the unexpected results of their journeys? Why did they continue to explore after almost dying while trying? Were they fearless, foolish or both?Įxplorers Who Made it…or Died Trying is a conversational book about explorers, a topic that, by her own admission (see “excerpt), fascinates author Frieda Wishinsky. But people who did just that fascinate me. I wouldn’t climb a mountain just because it was there, or sail on unknown seas if monsters lurked, or freeze my toes off just to plant a flag on a slab of ice at the bottom or top of the world. Illustrated by Bill Dickson.ĭiscoveries in geography-History-Juvenile literature. ![]()
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