Lives of the Explorers

Reviewed by: Ann Marie Townsend - South Berwick Public Library, South Berwick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 10, 2015

Review

A collective biography of explorers, presented chronologically, some well known, some obscure, each with a brief background of their life and what and why they explored. A good introduction for children, but very uneven, as some have maps, some cover the more violent, cruel aspects of the explorers, other just the basics. Included are: Leif Ericson, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Henry Hudson, James Cook, Daniel Boone, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacajawea, Richard Francis Burton, Isabella Bird, Mary Kingsley, Matthew Henson, Richard E. Byrd, Auguste and Jacques Piccard and Sally Ride. Included is a For Further Reading page, which will be needed as the information given is very brief.

Overall Book Score: fair