Author: Dylan Thuras
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523503548
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
New York Times bestseller! The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a thrilling expedition to 100 of the most surprising, mysterious, and weird-but-true places on earth. For curious kids, this is the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime—and see how faraway countries have more in common than you might expect! Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of connecting attractions: Explore Mexico’s glittering cave of crystals, then visit the world’s largest cave in Vietnam. Peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then learn how Antarctica’s Blood Falls got their mysterious color. Or see mysterious mummies in Japan and France, then majestic ice caves in both Argentina and Austria. As you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, this book is your passport to a world of hidden wonders, illuminated by gorgeous art.
Atlas Obscura
Author: Joshua Foer
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 076118967X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 076118967X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.
World Atlas
Author: Oldrich Ruzicka
Publisher: Union Square Kids
ISBN: 9781454912354
Category : Children's atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides fun facts and trivia about different countries around the world, including information about native wildlife, important architecture, and local culture.
Publisher: Union Square Kids
ISBN: 9781454912354
Category : Children's atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides fun facts and trivia about different countries around the world, including information about native wildlife, important architecture, and local culture.
The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid
Author: Dylan Thuras
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523503548
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
New York Times bestseller! The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a thrilling expedition to 100 of the most surprising, mysterious, and weird-but-true places on earth. For curious kids, this is the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime—and see how faraway countries have more in common than you might expect! Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of connecting attractions: Explore Mexico’s glittering cave of crystals, then visit the world’s largest cave in Vietnam. Peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then learn how Antarctica’s Blood Falls got their mysterious color. Or see mysterious mummies in Japan and France, then majestic ice caves in both Argentina and Austria. As you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, this book is your passport to a world of hidden wonders, illuminated by gorgeous art.
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523503548
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
New York Times bestseller! The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a thrilling expedition to 100 of the most surprising, mysterious, and weird-but-true places on earth. For curious kids, this is the chance to embark on the journey of a lifetime—and see how faraway countries have more in common than you might expect! Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of connecting attractions: Explore Mexico’s glittering cave of crystals, then visit the world’s largest cave in Vietnam. Peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then learn how Antarctica’s Blood Falls got their mysterious color. Or see mysterious mummies in Japan and France, then majestic ice caves in both Argentina and Austria. As you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, this book is your passport to a world of hidden wonders, illuminated by gorgeous art.
Children's Discovery Atlas
Author: Anita Ganeri
Publisher: QEB Publishing
ISBN: 1786039877
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
A bold and colourful first atlas, packed with illustrations and photos on every page, and covering all areas of the world. Regions are shown using physical and political maps, and feature iconic animals, natural wonders, famous landmarks, and much more. Each spread includes ‘sight-seeing’ features to whet young explorers’ appetites, as well as a Fast Facts panel, great for learning all the top stats at a glance.
Publisher: QEB Publishing
ISBN: 1786039877
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
A bold and colourful first atlas, packed with illustrations and photos on every page, and covering all areas of the world. Regions are shown using physical and political maps, and feature iconic animals, natural wonders, famous landmarks, and much more. Each spread includes ‘sight-seeing’ features to whet young explorers’ appetites, as well as a Fast Facts panel, great for learning all the top stats at a glance.
The Nystrom World Atlas
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780782507409
Category : Activity programs in education
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Organized by five fundamental geographic themes: the world in spatial terms; places, regions, and landscapes; human systems; environment and society; and uses of geography.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780782507409
Category : Activity programs in education
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Organized by five fundamental geographic themes: the world in spatial terms; places, regions, and landscapes; human systems; environment and society; and uses of geography.
Hammond Explorer World Atlas
Author: Hammond World Atlas Corporation
Publisher: Hammond World Atlas Corporation
ISBN: 9780843713572
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Perfect for back-to-school or general family reference, the easy-to-use "Hammond Explorer World Atlas" features the same quality, up-to-date, computer-generated maps as the more expensive Hammond world atlases, at a very affordable price. Each continent opens with a political map, followed by regional maps that use different colours and textures to highlight distinctive features such as parks, forests, deserts, and urban areas.
Publisher: Hammond World Atlas Corporation
ISBN: 9780843713572
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Perfect for back-to-school or general family reference, the easy-to-use "Hammond Explorer World Atlas" features the same quality, up-to-date, computer-generated maps as the more expensive Hammond world atlases, at a very affordable price. Each continent opens with a political map, followed by regional maps that use different colours and textures to highlight distinctive features such as parks, forests, deserts, and urban areas.
Female Explorers' Atlas
Author: Francaviglia, Riccardo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788854415447
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788854415447
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Devil's Atlas
Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1398503568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil’s Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings and captivating stories, the reader is taken on a compelling tour of the geography, history and supernatural populations of the afterworlds of cultures around the globe. Whether it’s the thirteen heavens of the Aztecs, the Chinese Taoist netherworld of ‘hungry ghosts’, or the ‘Hell of the Flaming Rooster’ of Japanese Buddhist mythology (in which sinners are tormented by an enormous fire-breathing cockerel), The Devil’s Atlas gathers together a wonderful variety of beliefs and representations of life after death. These afterworlds are illustrated with an unprecedented collection of images, ranging from the marvellous ‘infernal cartography’ of the European Renaissance artists attempting to map the structured Hell described by Dante and the decorative Islamic depictions of Paradise to the various efforts to map the Garden of Eden and the spiritual vision paintings of nineteenth-century mediums. The Devil’s Atlas accompanies beautiful images with a highly readable trove of surprising facts and narratives, from the more inventive torture methods awaiting sinners, to colourful eccentric catalogues of demons, angels and assorted death deities. A traveller’s guide to worlds unseen, The Devil’s Atlas is a fascinating study of the boundless capacity of human invention, a visual chronicle of man’s hopes, fears and fantasies of what lies beyond.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1398503568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil’s Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings and captivating stories, the reader is taken on a compelling tour of the geography, history and supernatural populations of the afterworlds of cultures around the globe. Whether it’s the thirteen heavens of the Aztecs, the Chinese Taoist netherworld of ‘hungry ghosts’, or the ‘Hell of the Flaming Rooster’ of Japanese Buddhist mythology (in which sinners are tormented by an enormous fire-breathing cockerel), The Devil’s Atlas gathers together a wonderful variety of beliefs and representations of life after death. These afterworlds are illustrated with an unprecedented collection of images, ranging from the marvellous ‘infernal cartography’ of the European Renaissance artists attempting to map the structured Hell described by Dante and the decorative Islamic depictions of Paradise to the various efforts to map the Garden of Eden and the spiritual vision paintings of nineteenth-century mediums. The Devil’s Atlas accompanies beautiful images with a highly readable trove of surprising facts and narratives, from the more inventive torture methods awaiting sinners, to colourful eccentric catalogues of demons, angels and assorted death deities. A traveller’s guide to worlds unseen, The Devil’s Atlas is a fascinating study of the boundless capacity of human invention, a visual chronicle of man’s hopes, fears and fantasies of what lies beyond.
Map Link Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Barefoot Books World Atlas
Author: Nick Crane
Publisher: Barefoot Ministries
ISBN: 9781846863325
Category : Children's atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This atlas is packed with information about the way in which communities and cultures across the world have been shaped by their local environments and it looks at the ideas and initiatives which are shaping the future.
Publisher: Barefoot Ministries
ISBN: 9781846863325
Category : Children's atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This atlas is packed with information about the way in which communities and cultures across the world have been shaped by their local environments and it looks at the ideas and initiatives which are shaping the future.